# 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.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

3 works in the collection.

- [Golden Star (Chrysogonum virginianum)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/golden-star-chrysogonum-virginianum-si-saam-1970-355-483), Mary Vaux Walcott, 1922. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Untitled (Autumn Leaf)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/untitled-autumn-leaf-si-saam-1970-355-761), Mary Vaux Walcott, 1872. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- ["My First Painting"](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/my-first-painting-si-saam-1970-355-766), Mary Vaux Walcott, ca. 1868. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.