Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Botanical

Euan Uglow
Lemon
1975
oil on canvas
private collection


David Ross Warrillow
Tiger Lily
ca. 1998
oil on board
private collection

Edward Steichen
Backbone and Ribs of a Sunflower
ca. 1920
platinum print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Leopold Zinögger
Pomegranates
1852
watercolor and gouache on paper
private collection

Charles Jones
Tomatoes
ca. 1900
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Sebastian Wegmayr
Varieties of Apples
before 1857
watercolor and ink on paper
private collection

Moritz Tettelbach
Dog Roses
1831
watercolor and gouache on paper
private collection

Albert Renger-Patzsch
Echeveria gibbiflora
ca. 1924
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mary Vaux Walcott
Balsamroot
1923
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Pieter Withoos
Snapdragon
before 1693
watercolor on paper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

William John Newton
Burnham Beeches
ca. 1853
salted paper print
Princeton University Art Museum

Leon Underwood
Sketch of combat-damaged Tree
1916
ink and watercolor on paper
Imperial War Museum, London

Whiting Tennis
Blue Cactus
2011
oil on canvas
private collection

John Dawson Watson
Trunk of a Birch Tree
before 1892
watercolor on paper
Tate Britain

Alison Watt
Centifolia
2019
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Helen Torr
Quince on White Hand Dish
before 1945
oil on canvas
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

Ina van Zyl
Member of the Family
2008
oil on canvas
private collection

I hear an army charging upon the land,
    And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,
    Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.

They cry unto the night their battle-name:
    I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,
    Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.

They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:
    They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore.
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?
    My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?

– James Joyce (1907)