American Botanical Paintings: Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic

Gold Award Winner - 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Winner - 2014 USA Best Book Award A book for artists and gardeners. Highly acclaimed book of reproductions of original juried botanical art featuring: 60 Botanical Painting & Drawings 40 Paintings of butterflies moths and other insect pollinators 144 Pages with Hardcover Entertaining narratives describe the plants their habitat and their usefulness in gardens or wild areas. Fascinating notes relate ways Native Americans and colonists along the mid-Atlantic area of the U.S. used plants for food medicine and tools. This is a delightfully illustrated book beautifully designed and with lots of variety in the choice of plant subjects. I admired the standard of painting and the fresh appealing studies which will be attractive to both naturalists and gardeners. - Dr. Shirley Sherwood OBE Botanical art collector The U.S. Botanic Garden was thrilled to be a part of this book as it embodies what we know to be vitalour world is better and richer with fine botanical art and the plants in our backyards in our woods and along the roadsides are amazing! - Holly Shimizu Executive Director U.S. Botanic Garden