Title: The Life and times of Mary Vaux Walcott /
Authors: Jones, Marjorie G.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Walcott, Mary Vaux,; Walcott, Mary Vaux,; United States. Employees Biography.; Quaker women United States Biography.; Painters United States Biography.; Botanical illustration; Botanical illustration; Flowers in art; Plants in art; Watercolor painting, American; Watercolor painting, American; Botanical illustration; Flowers in art.; Plants in art.; Watercolor painting, American.
Abstract: "Known as the 'Audubon of Botany', Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's studies, science, and art during the transformative times in which she lived".