A watercolor drawing of a Showy Ladyslipper orchid, depicting one pink and white blossom, two flowers beginning to blossom, and one tight green bud.

Showy Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium reginae, 1924, by #MaryVauxWalcott (#MaryMorrisVauxWalcott; American, 1860-1940). Held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/artwork/show... #womenartists #artherstory #NationalOrchidDay #OrchidDay

🎨 #MaryVauxWalcott, American artist and naturalist, was #BOTD 31 July 1860. #Art #Painting #Nature

Susan M. Ward on Substack A renaissance woman! Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) began painting when she was eight. She studied mineralogy and glaciers under her father's tutelage. She was also a mountain climber and photographer....

Love her delicacy! Love her colors!

#watercolor #art #museum #smithsonian #maryvauxwalcott #wildflowers

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940)
American artist🎨 and naturalist
#MaryVauxWalcott

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940)
American artist🎨 and naturalist
#MaryVauxWalcott

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940)
American artist🎨 and naturalist
#MaryVauxWalcott

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940)
American artist🎨 and naturalist
#MaryVauxWalcott

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940)
American artist🎨 and naturalist
#MaryVauxWalcott

A watercolor study of brown and orangish-brown mushrooms growing in a bed of moss.

Untitled / Study of Mushrooms, 1880, by #MaryVauxWalcott (#MaryMorrisVauxWalcott; American, 1860-1940). Held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/artwork/unti...

#womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #NationalMushroomDay

Art Herstory Holiday Card for 2022 | A Sprig of Holly The 2022 Art Herstory holiday card features "American holly / Ilex opaca" by American artist Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940).

#ArtHerstory has a Holiday Card that features American #Holly, a work by Mary Vaux Walcott - artherstory.net/art-herstory...
#MaryVauxWalcott #MaryMorrisVauxWalcott #botanicalholidaycard

A watercolor drawing of mixed flowers, including bleeding heart, viola (one flower and one bud) and a narcissus.

Untitled / Mixed Flowers, 1876, by #MaryVauxWalcott (#MaryMorrisVauxWalcott; American, 1860-1940), who was born #otd, July 31. Held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/artwork/unti... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

2) #ArtHerstory also has a botanical holiday card (available individually or in a boxed set of 10) that reproduces American holly / Ilex opaca, by #MaryVauxWalcott, artherstory.net/product/10-p...

#womenartistholidaycards #hernaturalhistory

- The 2022 #ArtHerstory holiday card features a sprig of holly by #MaryVauxWalcott, a plate from her North American Wild Flowers, published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institution.

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