Spring Blooms: Botanical Watercolors by Margaret Stones
Shields Library (Archives and Special Collections Reading Room)
March 10, 2017 - June 16, 2017
Margaret Stones (1920- ), botanical artist, served for twenty-five years as the principal illustrator for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and worked under commission for the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, England.
Special Collections holds six original watercolors of Northern California plants, painted by Stones in March-April 1987, while she was visiting California. We are presenting this small exhibit on the thirtieth anniversary of that visit.
The exhibit can be viewed during Special Collections Reading Room hours of Monday-Friday from 10am-5pm.
Occidental, California, April 7, 1987.