Brown, Andrew.Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries’ Garden. Contemporary Botanical Illustrations from the Chelsea Physic Garden. Antique Collectors’ Club. ISBN: 1-85149-503-7
This collection of paintings by the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society was compiled in honor of the Society’s tenth anniversary. Fifty-six artists contributed one painting each to this book. Each painting is accompanied by information about the featured plant, as well as a short biography of the contributing artist.
Butler, Patricia. 2000. Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters. Antique Collectors’ Club. ISBN: 1-85149-357-3.
Cribb, Phillip and Michael Tibbs. 2004. A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings of John Day. Blacker Publishing & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN: 0-500-97015-7
This collection of orchid paintings from orchid enthusiast, John Day (1824-1888) is inspiring. This book contains only a sample of the more than 2,300 orchids painted by Day that are housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Daniels, Gilbert S. 1974. Artists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. ISBN: 0-913196-17-7.
Dykens, Margaret N. et al. 2003. Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien. The Irvine Museum. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien at the San Diego Natural History Museum. December 12, 2003 – September 7, 2004. ISBN: 0-9714092-5-0.
Eustis, Elizabeth S., John F. Reed, and David L. Andrews. 2002. Plants and Gardens Portrayed. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Plants and Gardens Portrayed: Rare and Illustrated Books from The LuEsther T. Mertz Library. May 2 – July 31, 2002. New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, NY.
Flannery, Maura C. 1995. The visual in botany. American Biology Teacher. 57(2): 117-120. Flannery suggests using botanical art as a tool to help biology students appreciate plants and become more comfortable with botanical terms. In her article, Flannery discusses the long association between botany and art and shares with readers the viewpoint that modern botany is what it is today because of the work of botanical illustrators. This article is a good history lesson and worth the trip to your local college library.
Griffiths, Mark. 2002. Orchids: From the Archives of the Royal Horticultural Society. Abrams Books. ISBN: 0-8109-0438-1
This history book about orchids features 300 full-color plates of paintings completed by different artists, including Walter Hood Fitch. Artwork is from the collection of the Royal Horticultural Society. ArtPlantae Books has the mini-version of this book in stock.
McAlpine, Daniel. 1989. The Botanical Atlas: A Guide to the Practical Study of Plants. Smithmark Publishers. ISBN: 0-8317-7495-9
Michel, Marianne Roland. 2002. The Floral Art of Pierre-Joseph RedoutÈ. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, The Floral Art of Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1849). Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT. July 20 – November 3, 2002. ISBN: 0-9720736-1-2
Riley, John J. and David P. Banks. Orchids of Australia. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 0-691-11490-0
Artist’s can learn about 150 of Australia’s native orchids by studying the life-size colored pencil paintings of Australian botanical artist, John J. Riley. Opposite each illustration is information about each plant.
Saunders, Gill. 1995. Picturing Plants. UC Press. ISBN: 0-520-20306-2.
Sherwood, Shirley. 1996. Contemporary Botanical Artists. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group. ISBN: 0-297-82270-5
The first of three books highlighting the botanical art collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood. Features the artwork of 113 artists.
Sherwood, Shirley. 2001. A Passion for Plants. Cassell & Co. ISBN: 0-304-35828-2
The second of three books about the botanical art collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood. Features the artwork of 89 artists.
Sherwood, Shirley. 2005. 1,000 Years of Botanical Art. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. ISBN: 1-85444-206-6
This third book about Dr. Shirley Sherwood’s collection was published in conjunction with the exhibit, A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art that was held at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, May 2 – September 11, 2005. In this exhibit, botanical material from the libraries and museums of Oxford University were displayed next to contemporary examples of botanical art so that comparisons could be made between the work of early botanical artists and that of modern botanical artists.
Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgi and Gretchen A. Hirschauer. 2002. The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. March 3 – May 27, 2002. ISBN: 0-89468-288-1.
Woldbye, Vibeke. 1991. Flowers Into Art: Floral Motifs in European Painting and Decorative Arts. Published in conjunction with an exhibition in Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark. SDU Publishers. October 5 – December 2, 1990. ISBN: 90-6179-140-5.
