Banksia lady
Subtitle: Celia Rosser, botanical artist
By: Carolyn Landon
Publisher: Monash University Pub.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Clayton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781922235800
Subjects: Women artists; Botanical artists; History; Banksia; Biography; Botanical illustration
Description: This is the story of Celia Rosser, the internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the center of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminating in the production of an extraordinary three-volume florilegium that became one of the great books published in the twentieth century. Banksia Lady reveals the emergence of an artist who grew up in difficult circumstances during the Great Depression ..."--Back cover.