Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Barbara Bosworth

Barbara Bosworth
Swallows, Platte River, Nebraska
1991
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Green Ash, Michigan
1992
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Wynoochee Falls, Olympic National Forest, Washington
1993
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Latourell Falls, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
1993
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Coast Redwood, California
1994
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Valley Oak, California
1994
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Blackjack Oak, Georgia
1999
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Singleleaf Ash, Colorado
2001
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion American Elm, Kansas
(identified and registered in 1979  subsequently destroyed by weather and vandals)
2001
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Slippery Elm, Ohio
2002
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
National Champion Elliottia, Georgia
2002
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Indigo Bunting
2003
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Common Yellowthroat
2003
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Untitled
(series - Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts)
2003
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Untitled
(series - Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts)
2004
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Barbara Bosworth
Black-billed Cuckoo
2005
C-print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

from Remedia Amores

    Although thy heart with fire like Ætna flame,
Let not thy mistresse once perceive the same:
Smother thy passions, and let not thy face
Tell thy mindes secrets, while she is in place:
Thy heart being stormy, let thy face be cleere,
Nor let loves fire by smoake of sighs appeare.
Dissemble long, till thy dissembling breed
Such use, as thou art out of love indeed.

    Who loves must lovers company refuse,
For love is as infectious as newes.
By looking on sore eyes, we sore eyes get,
And fire doth alwaies on the next house set.
Did not infection to next neighbours flie,
Diseases would with their first owners die.
    A wound new heal'd will soone break out againe,
Therefore from seeing of thy love refraine:
Nor will this serve, but thou must shun her kin,
And even the house which she abideth in.
Let not her Nurse or Chamber-maide once move thee
Though they protest, how much their Mistresse loves thee,
Nor into any question of her breake,
Nor of her talke (though thou against her speake).
He that sayes oft that he is not in love
By repetition doth himselfe disprove. 

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Sir Thomas Overbury (before 1613)