Opening the Door to a New World:
Mark Catesby's Travels in La Florida, 1722-1726
NATURAL HISTORIES:
Artists Forage in Science and Nature
November 9, 2001 - January 19, 2002
Schmidt Center Gallery
Curators: Arlene Fradkin with Mallory O'Conner (Catesby); W. Rod Faulds (Natural Histories)
Media Packet
Images (clockwise from top left): Views of the Schmidt Center Gallery, Opening the Door to a New World: Mark Catesby's Travels in La Florida, 1722-1726
Images (clockwise from top left): Views of the Schmidt Center Gallery, Natural Histories: Artists Forage in Science and Nature
Mark Catesby's Travels in La Florida presents limited edition lithographs made from Mark Catesby's18th Century watercolors made to inform British patrons of the flora and fauna in the New World. Like John James Audobon, Catesby worked in the southeastern U.S. one hundred years earlier when the entire region was known as "La Florida."
Artists in the Natural Histories exhibition: Bill Burns, Catherine Chalmers, Sam Easterson, Joe Fedderson, Walton Ford, Florencio Gelabert, Alexis Rockman, Christy Rupp, Michael Zansky.