Reproductions of botanical drawings made in the 1840s and 1850s, by several different Indian artists for the East India Company surgeon, and pioneering Forest Conservator, Hugh Cleghorn (1820-1895).

An exhibition of colonial botanical art at London's Kew Gardens gives Indian artists their due ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating cultural shifts in its seemingly simple motifs, a new study reveals. The ...

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

The need for exactness differentiates botanical illustration from more general flower painting. In the hands of a talented botanical artist, however, the illustration goes beyond its scientific ...

Art imitates nature and vice versa at the Tropical Conservatory Gallery in Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens. Nothing appears as it should in “The Nature of Things” exhibit, where a bouquet of flowers is ...

To plant-lovers accustomed to full-color photographs in glossy gardening magazines, the botanical drawings in the recently mounted “Flowers from the Royal Gardens of Kew” exhibit at first glance may ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Botanical artist Eileen Malone-Brown is seated, bent forward, intently concentrating on a painting she is working on of a green apple with leaves. She ...