Pansies

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Fidelia Bridges became well known for her delicately detailed flower paintings, watercolors, and drawings in the latter part of the 19th century. As evident in Pansies, Bridges specialized in relaying the smallest details, balancing scientific accuracy with aesthetic beauty. This study might have been developed in preparation for an illustration for Louis Prang’s 1889 publication, Flower Fancies, which paired flowers with poems written by Alice Ward Bailley.

From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 229.

Provenance

George C. Lay (friend of the artist); to Dowing Lay (son); to Oliver I. Lay (son); to George C. Lay (grandson) [owner in 1999]; Melissa Williams (dealer), Columbia, Missouri; sold to Paul W. Worman (dealer), New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.

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