Mary Vaux Walcott
born Philadelphia, PA 1860-died St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1940
Mary Vaux Walcott came from a Philadelphia Quaker family and spent summers in the Canadian Rockies, where she photographed glaciers and began painting wildflowers in watercolour. In 1914 she married Charles Doolittle Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which published her five-volume North American Wild Flowers in 1925. Her careful, botanically accurate plates made the series a landmark of American flower illustration.
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- In the collection
- 3 worksDated 1868–1922
- Mostly
- Painting
- Courtesy of
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum
