With Paintbrush and Shovel
Subtitle: Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers
Contributors: Bessie Niemeyer Marshall (Illustrator); Donna M. E. Ware (Contributor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813919690
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes; Trees & wildflowers; Watercolours; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Botany (General); Science; Art & Art Instruction; Nature/Ecology; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Flowers; Techniques - Painting - Specific Subjects; Life Sciences - Botany; Botanical illustration; Catalogs; Catalogs and collections; Lee Park Herbarium; Petersburg; Virginia; Wild flowers
First sentence: In early December 1935, thirty-three womentwenty-six black and seven whitebegan clearing out dead branches and piling up compost along the wooded hills and steep ravines of a large city park in Petersburg, Virginia.
Description: "With Paintbrush and Shovel showcases the botanical watercolors of Bessie Niemeyer Marshall, a gifted Virginia artist who received scant recognition during her lifetime. Reproduced for the first time in this volume, Marshall's beautiful paintings are the primary surviving record of a unique WPA project that put women to work creating a wildflower sanctuary in Petersburg, Virginia, during the 1930s."--Jacket.