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Flora and Sylva
This week we are featuring Tiger Flower, a tale for children by Robert Vavra with paintings by Fleur Cowles and a preface by Yehudi Menuhin. It was published by Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow & Company in New York in 1969. The book tells the story of Tiger Flower, King of the Grass, who lives “where everything that should be small, is big, and everything that should be big, is small.” Robert Vavra wrote the story after being inspired by Fleur Cowles’s paintings.
In an author’s note, Robert Vavra wrote:
“When I first saw Fleur Cowles’s paintings in London, I was convinced they would make wonderful illustrations for a book. They had a rare imaginative quality about them that filled me with instant enthusiasm for such a project. But Fleur is an internationally known painter, not an illustrator, and I knew that she, like many painters, might not consent to illustrating someone else’s ideas. So that same evening, not wanting to leave her creatures behind me forever, I proposed that she send me about eight photographs of paintings she had done. And because she has an adventurous spirit, one that knows few boundaries, she agreed.
In the months that followed, small packages of photographs of these paintings reached me in Spain. They came from collections in Greece and France and South America and Italy and the United States and many other places. Fleur did not have an easy job tracking them down. But she did it. Then, laid out on my work table, those that appear in this book rapidly fell into order. It was not the ordinary way of making such a book – illustrations before text. But then, Fleur’s tiger was not a very ordinary cat.”
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Illustrations of fungi by Christiaan Sepp taken from Flora Batava ( first published 1800) by Jan Kops (1765–1849) .
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Les ballades françaises : montagne, forêt, plaine, mer - Paul Fort, François Louis Schmied - 1927 - via e-rara
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I Feel All Wrong, I Don’t Understand, 2012 from story Raven Girl, aquatint on Sakamoto Paper.
Transit Posters from Research: Design in Nature
Today we are featuring poster designs from Research: Design in Nature, edited by John Gilbert Wilkins, published by the Field Museum of Natural History and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926. The portfolio features over 200 leaves of plates that were printed in the Field Museum pressroom and the Regensteiner Corporation of Chicago. The posters we are presenting today are from a poster competition for students at the School of the Art Institute in 1925.
John Gilbert Wilkins writes:
“Late in the school year of 1925, Mr. D. C. Davies, Director of the Field Museum, decided to offer a second Poster Prize. The contest was open to the second year class in Research of the School of the Art Institute. The director immediately began to cast about to find some available source for securing the necessary prize money to cover the various awards. Mr. Stanley Field, President of the Field Museum, saw the advantage of such a plan and expressed a desire to furnish the required funds. Thus one hundred dollars was set aside for this purpose.
The students were given the necessary data and required to select their own material from anywhere within the Museum, and make preliminary pencil sketches direct from the object. From these sketches poster designs were laid out, also in pencil, criticized and approved by the instructor, then finished in color.”
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Ohara Koson, Chicks and a worm, 1st half 20th century (source).
Blumen-Ornamentik - Josef Pilters - 1900 - via Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)
Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite - Fortuné Eydoux, Louis François Auguste Souleyet, et al. - 1841 - via Internet Archive
By the Sea 1864
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Robert Bothner - Erntezeit, frühe 1920er Jahre
Sous la tente : camps de vacances de la Fédération française des étudiants chrétiens - Edouard Maury, ill. de François Louis Schmied - 1911 - via e-rara
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