topic:"Botany" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; The sketchbooks; Biographies; Selected reading; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes: Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"

ISBN: 9780452158273

Accession Number: AC635

Call Number: N L49 E97

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/explorers-sketchbooks.html

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Flower : exploring the world in bloom

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25676

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Clarke, Victoria

Publisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited

Call Number: 06.1 C55f

Author: Clarke, Victoria

Publisher: London ; New York : Phaidon Press Limited

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 351 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Art; Botany; Flowers; Photography

Abstract: Takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout history. Showcasing the diversity of blooms from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them.

ISBN: 9781838660857

Accession Number: 2022.27

Call Number: 06.1 C55f

Collection: Archives Library

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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2019

Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Call Number: 04 Z1n

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Author: Zytaruk, Maria

Responsibility: Maria Zytaruk

Publisher: Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Birds; Art; History; Exhibition catalogue; Exhibitions

Abstract: This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book; Chapter 2: Paper birds; Chapter 3: Containing nature; Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany; Chapter 5: Orchids for the few; Epilogue; Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition

ISBN: 9780772761262

Accession Number: 2021.07

Call Number: 04 Z1n

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publishers website

Websites

https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/nature-page-print-and-manuscript-culture-victorian-natural-history-0

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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2020

Author: Brown, Annora

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04.1 B81 2020

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Author: Brown, Annora

Responsibility: Annora Brown; Mary-Beth Laviolette (introduction); Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black (forward)

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: xxii, 268 pages : illustrations (some colour)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Folklore; Art; Flowers; Brown, Annora

Abstract: Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published in 1954, Annora Brown’s Old Man’s Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta’s native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region. Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man’s Garden, Sidney Black of Fort Macleod, the Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Treaty 7, provides his own commentary about Annora’s art and writing in relation to the Blackfoot, while independent art curator Mary-Beth Laviolette broadens the story about the artist’s contribution to Canadian art. Also included in this new edition are full-colour images of Annora’s later paintings of Blackfoot lodges (tipis) and regalia, the dramatic landscape of the Oldman RIver region such as Waterton National Park, and her abiding, lifelong regard for the flora of her homeland. According to Annora Brown, Old Man’s Garden is a “book of gossip about the flowers of the West.” A one-of-a-kind work featuring 169 black-and-white drawings of flowers and native plants, this classic text is about more than botany. Throughout its pages there is a sparkle to her stories of early exploration and settlement, her concern for conservation, and her regard for the Blackfoot Nation, and Indigenous culture. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Forward by Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black; Introduction to the new edition by Mary-Beth Laviolette; Introduction to the 1954 edition; I Wi-suk-i-tshak; II Trail Blazers; III Moon-When-the-Grass-Turns-Green; IV Old Man's Vegetable Garden; V Old Man's Medicine Bag; VI Dyes; VII Desert and Swamp; VIII Incense; IX Moon-of-the-Flowers; X Berries; XI Trees; Index

Notes: Originally published in 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and 1970 by Gray's Publishing Co.

ISBN: 9781771603447

Accession Number: P2020-6

Call Number: 04.1 B81 2020

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/old-mans-garden/

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Smithsonain Institution : Mary Vaux Walcott wildflowers : donor edition

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1925

Author: Vaux Walcott, Mary

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Call Number: 04.1 W14m O.S.

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Author: Vaux Walcott, Mary

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published Date: 1925

Physical Description: 1 portfolio (1 folded sheet, 5 plates, 4 loose leaves) : color illustrations, portraits

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Art; Walcott, Mary Vaux; Flowers; Smithsonian Institute; Research; Vaux family

Abstract: Pertains to wildflower prints by Mary Vaux Walcott reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution as a "Donor Edition - Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program" - short write up about the process and her career with 5 prints on rag paper created using the "Smithsonian Process"

Contents: White Epidendrum - epidendrum nocturnum Jaquin - 337 - MVW - 1925; Silverberry - elaeagnus commutata [additional single print - no write up] - 70 - MVW; Goldenpea - thermopsis rhombifolia (Nuttal) Richardson - 297 - MVW - 1925; Missouri Pricklypear - opuntia polyacantha - Haworth - 35 - MVW - 1925; Rabbitbean - cracca virginiana - Linnaeus - 44 - MVW - 1925

Notes: Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program

Accession Number: 3089 (single print); 3077 (portfolio)

Call Number: 04.1 W14m O.S.

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Mary Vaux Walcott spotlight with images of wildflower prints on the Smithsonian Art Museum website

Websites

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/mary-vaux-walcott?page=21&destination=sisearch%3Fedan_q%3Dsmithsonian%252Bof%252Bscience&width=85%25&height=85%25&iframe=true

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