Exhibitions Online
Items from the Art collection are featured in the following online exhibitions.
17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration
This exhibition includes 43 artworks by 43 artists who reside in 17 countries (Chile, China, Colombia, England, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey and the United States). The 17th International artists include Natalia Alatortseva, Anita Barley, Claudia Campazzo, Benjamín Cárdenas, Hyunjin Cho, Paresh Churi, Andreia d'Almeida, Toni Dade, Hans de Vries, Christiane Fashek, Maria Grazia Gianella, Alexandra Gorchakova, Yoko Harada, Marianne Hazlewood, Chie Imamura, Jackie Isard, Yan Ji, Hyojung Kim, Marina Kiselyova, Joyce Byung Sook Ko, Svetlana Lanse, M. Joy Lemon, Maria Lombardi, Toni Luchessa, Tammy McEntee, Victoria Mezenova, Kimiko Miyahara, Mibu Nakamura, Irina Neacsu, Keiko Nibu Tarver, Gillian Rice, Michele Rodda, Betsy Rogers-Knox, Yasue Sakai, Margaret Saylor, Irina Stolyarova, Anna Suprunenko, Pamela Taylor, Susan Tomlinson, Donnett Vanek, Sunanda Widel, Michie Yamada and Hürmüz Yeniceli.
Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 2
We conclude our two-part retrospective exhibition to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of our International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration series. Featuring some of the 1,212 artists who have been included in the series since 1964, the spring 2024 exhibition, Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 2, includes works by 43 artists from the 9th–16th Internationals. The celebration culminates with the opening of our 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration in fall 2024.
Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 1
To celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of our International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration series, we are having a two-part retrospective exhibition in fall 2023 and spring 2024 featuring some of the 1,212 artists who have been included in the series since 1964. The fall 2023 exhibition, Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 1, included works by 46 artists from the first eight Internationals. The celebration culminates with the opening of our 17th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration in fall 2024.
Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes
Carolus Linnaeus (also Carl von Linné, 1707–1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist whose work laid the foundations of modern biological systematics and nomenclature. Long before Linnaeus, classical science was important in the shaping of subsequent science in the West. Transmitted through the cultures of the Mediterranean area, classical science was recovered during the Renaissance and ensuing Scientific Revolution and undergirded the search for a new botanical system. Drawing on the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, Linnaeus developed a coherent system for describing, classifying and naming organisms. Linnaeus' students traveled the globe to explore and collect information and specimens. Aspects of the Linnaean system have enabled amateurs and professionals worldwide to identify, name and describe plants for more than two centuries.
Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History
Through history the virtues and pleasures of herbs have enhanced our daily lives and connected us to the natural world through all of our senses. Through the centuries herbs have been used not only for medicinal purposes but also to flavor and preserve food, to scent and protect household environments and to dye or stain the skin and textiles. From the countless cultivated or wild herbs with overlapping applications we have chosen a selection within the four categories of physic, flavor, fragrance and dye. Each topic provides highlights of the usage of five herbs at specific points in history. The 20 herbs are illustrated by original watercolors and prints, rare books or manuscript pages from the Hunt Institute's Art, Library and Archives collections.
