For the Love of Nature : E. E. Gostelow's Birds and Flowers
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2010
Z1682795
2010
single work
biography
'Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866-1944) spent much of his 50-year-long teaching career in country schools across New South Wales. A keen naturalist, he would brighten his blackboards with captivating chalk drawings of birds and flowers. Although not a trained artist, he began to paint as many wildflowers as he could find in the different places where he was teaching. Many of his watercolours depict, in minute detail, buds, flowers, leaves and seeds, arranged in exquisite compositions.
'After retirement, Gostelow gave himself the new challenge of depicting all the recorded species of Australian birds. In For the Love of Nature, a short biography of Gostelow by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley is followed by beautiful full-colour plates of his bird and flower watercolours, drawn from the National Library of Australia's collection of some 860 of Gostelow's works.' (From the publisher's website.)
Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2010
A Brilliant Touch : Adam Forster's Wildflower Paintings
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2010
Z1771604
2010
single work
biography
'Adam Forster was a skilled, self-taught botanical artist whose goal was to paint one thousand species of Australian wildflowers. To this end, on weekends, he travelled all over the Sydney region and country New South Wales to sketch and collect plant specimens. The National Library of Australia has over 900 of Forster's superb watercolours, 90 of which are presented here as full-colour plates. ' (Trove record)
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2010
The Quintessential Bird : The Art of Betty Temple Watts
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2011
Z1836297
2011
single work
biography
Canberra
:
National Library of Australia
,
2011
