A Passion For Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterpieces
This stunning showcase of paintings by over 80 contemporary  botanical artists from all over the world comes from Sherwood's  own comprehensive collection; she acquired the works presented  here since 1995. The paintings are beautifully reproduced, often  with additional enlarged details, showing both their meticulous  scientific detail and their dramatic beauty. An introductory  section features both recent works and classic botanical  paintings, showing how well recent works compare. The main  section reproduces over 200 paintings, with a detailed  discussion of each painting as well as biographical information  about the artists and their working methods and Sherwood's  personal relationship with them. An appendix provides smaller  reproductions of more of her paintings and information about  their artists. Sherwood also furnishes a list of all artists in  her collection, an international directory of where to find  botanical art, and classes and a schedule of her collection's  future exhibits. Sherwood's 1996 work, Contemporary Botanical  Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection, has become the  standard reference work for botanical artists; this book will be  an equally important purchase for both botanical and art  collections. Marit MacArthur Taylor, Auraria Lib., DenverCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.