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With Paintbrush and Shovel

Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers, Watercolors by BessieNiemeyer Marshall

With Paintbrush and Shovel( )
Illustrator: Marshall, Bessie Niemeyer
Author: Kober, Nancy
Ware, Donna M. E.
ISBN:978-0-8139-1969-0
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $49.95
Book Description:

With Paintbrush and Shovel showcases the botanical watercolors of Bessie Niemeyer Marshall, a Virginia artist who received scant recognition during her lifetime. Reproduced for the first time in this volume, Marshall's beautiful paintings are the primary surviving record of a unique WPA project that put women to work creating a wildflower sanctuary in Petersburg, Virginia, during the 1930s.

Nancy Kober affectingly recounts the story of this fascinating project and the women...
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Book Details
Pages:280
Detailed Subjects: Art / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals
Nature / Plants / Flowers
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8 x 10 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:2.85 Pounds



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