Watercolor painting -- 20th century.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS444
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of watercolors of a variety of locations around Atlanta, including the First National Bank of Atlanta, the commissioner of the work; Georgia Capitol; Grady Memorial Hospital; Piedmont Park; Emory University; Peachtree Street; Muse's Department Store; First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia; and the Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia. Also included are interleaving pages for each painting with descriptive information. Please note this collection contains...
Dates:
1959
C. Helen Jennison Plane collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS457
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Caroline Helen Jennison Plane and is filled with her paintings of plants. The scrapbook also includes newspaper clippings regarding the death of Mrs. Plane.
Dates:
1881-1906, 1925
Irene Rose Smillie visual arts collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS210
Scope and Content
This collection contains cased portraits of family members of Irene Rose Smillie. There are images of Smillie's immediate family including her parents, sisters, and brother. There are also images of her mother's family including Smillie's grandfather, aunt, uncle, and cousin. The collection also contains photographs of Gibraltar, taken by Smillie during cruises across the Atlantic Ocean in 1911, as well as two watercolors painted by Smillie.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1915, undated
Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content
This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates:
2012