Redouté to Warhol
Subtitle: Bunny Mellon's botanical art
By: Oak Spring Garden Foundation, New York Botanical Garden ; curators: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Tony Willis, Susan Fraser ; volume editor: Joanna Groarke
Publisher: The New York Botanical Garden
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bronx, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9780692783627
Subjects: Art collections; Exhibitions; Library; Botanical illustration; Plants in art; Oak Spring Garden Library
Other titles: Bunny Mellon's botanical art
Description: "This catalog accompanies the New York Botanical Garden exhibition Redouté to Warhol: Bunny Mellon’s Botanical Art, which features masterworks of the botanical art collection belonging to the late Rachel Lambert (“Bunny”) Mellon. Curated by Dr. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Susan Fraser, and Tony Willis, the exhibition comprises nearly 80 important works of art ranging from rare watercolors by renowned botanical artists, such as Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, to 20th-century paintings by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. This exhibition catalog provides a new perspective from which to appreciate Bunny Mellon's extensive collection and appreciation of botanical art. Renowned as art collectors, Paul and Bunny Mellon were among the most generous donors to the National Gallery of Art. They contributed to the Gallery more than 1,000 carefully selected, distinguished works of art—primarily French and American paintings and drawings—originally acquired for their private enjoyment, but always with the intention that they would one day be shared with the American public."--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in the William D. Rondina and Giovanni Foroni LoFaro Gallery of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, October 8, 2016 - February 12, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (page 80).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gregory Long; title: Introduction / Sir Peter Crane, FRS; title: Acknowledgments; title: Bunny Mellon : her life and library / Tony Willis; title: Art & nature libraries & gardens / Susan Fraser; title: Bunny Mellon : collector and gardener / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi; title: Exhibition checklist.