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Of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Vol. 12, No. 2 Bulletin Fall 2000 of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Inside 4 Gifts of Winter on display 4 Gurjar’s Cannas with Fly 4 FNA update 4 Lawrence Memorial Award Watercolor of a cone by Kate Nessler, one of the artworks on display at the Hunt Institute through February 2001. Current and upcoming exhibitions Gifts of Winter on display The winter season is often described as cold, dark and drab. But even after the hours of daylight shorten and autumn color declines, there is beauty and delicacy in plant forms. The Hunt Institute gallery is currently displaying these “gifts of winter” in a selection of artworks and books from the Institute’s collection and in paintings on loan that were created especially for the exhibition by three artists. Featured are Richard Carroll’s minutely detailed egg tempera paintings with juxtaposed elements of dried bark, berries and forest litter, which bring attention to the often overlooked part of nature that is underfoot. Charles Pitcher’s large- format watercolors of groupings of woodland trees show the stark sculptural quality of their bare limbs and the beauty of their distinct bark patterns. Michael Wheeler’s acrylic painting on canvas features a brilliant February light on a snowy wooded landscape in rural West Virginia. The Party, watercolor by Charles Pitcher. The selections from the Hunt Institute’s collection include artworks spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries and represent plants that appear from the end of fall until the first hint of spring. The interesting colors and forms of autumn leaves, rose hips, dried cones and nuts are represented in watercolors, ink drawings, and prints by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer, Anne Ophelia Dowden, Elizabeth Dowle, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Mieko Ishikawa, George Mackley, Stanley Maltzman, Kate Nessler, selections from the U.S.D.A. Forest Service Collection, Frederick Andrews Walpole, Samuel M. Wickersham, and John Wilkinson. Stark winter landscapes are depicted in prints by Stephen Fisher, Reinder Homan, and Warren Mack and in a delicate watercolor of snow mounded on tree branches by Kōkei or Kōdō Yoshikawa. Fruit and the festive flowers, berries, and greenery of poinsettias, holly and mistletoe are represented in books and prints by Cicely Mary Barker, Pieter Casteels, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Madame Berthe Hoola Van Nooten, Owen Jones, Alan Magee, Mrs. Edward Roscoe, and Pierre Jean François Turpin. The late-winter blooms of snowdrops and crocus that represent the promise of spring are depicted in stipple engravings and watercolors by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Marilena Pistoia, and Margaret Stones. A full-color catalogue includes illustrations of the artworks and books in the exhibition, biographical information about each artist, and a sampling of 19th-century poetry related to the season. The exhibition is on display in the Institute’s Houx (Holly), by Pierre Jean François Turpin from gallery (on the 5th floor of Hunt Library) through 28 François Chaumeton’s Flore médicale. February 2001. The gallery is open on weekdays from 9 am to noon and 1 to 5 pm and Sunday from 1 to 4 pm. 2 Bull. Hunt Inst. Bot. Doc. 12(2), Fall 2000 Upcoming exhibition Approximately forty paintings of nature by Damodar Lal Gurjar of Jaipur, India, will be on display in our gallery in April 2001. Gurjar achieves exquisite detail in his paintings by applying a water-based medium with a very dry brush, followed by fine line work with a squirrel brush. His paintings have been included in two former exhibitions in our gallery, and this will be the Institute’s fourth exhibition of Indian art since 1980. (See Delectus Huntiana 24, Damodar Gurjar’s Cannas with Fly, on page 4 for a feature article on the artist and his work.) — Lugene B. Bruno Brackets, egg tempera by Richard Carroll. Onions, watercolor by Damodar Lal Gurjar. New Sunday gallery hours at the Hunt Institute Beginning with the Gifts of Winter exhibition our gallery, only, will be open to the public on Sunday afternoons from 1 to 4 pm, excluding 24 and 31 December. Helleborus niger, gouache on vellum by Georg Dionysius Ehret. Bull. Hunt Inst. Bot. Doc. 12(2), Fall 2000 3 Delectus Huntiana 24 Damodar Gurjar’s Cannas with Fly Damodar Lal Gurjar from Jaipur, India, is influenced by the traditional school of painting from the desert state of Rajasthan, but his technique is a blend of the traditional and the contemporary. Certainly he is one of India’s leading artists of natural-history themes. He occasionally makes field trips to observe nature, such as to the coast of Gujarat for species of wild birds. I especially admire the way he handles textures in his subjects — whether petals, onion skins, pine needles, ceramic pots, or feathers. The watercolor and tempera miniature (8 3/4” x 7”) Cannas with Fly by Gurjar is one of the most beautiful contemporary botanical paintings I have found in India. In depicting flowers and buds of Canna, an exotic herbaceous perennial from tropical America common in India, the artist has selected a bright yellow cultivar with orange markings. Gurjar’s inspiration for the painting was the plant’s new soft green leaves, “which in the early hours impart a sort of glaze to one’s eye.” He faced several challenges in this painting — “obtaining the glaze on the fresh and tender leaves” and “blending different shades of yellow and orange in such a way that was closest to the natural specimen.” His skillful and patient burnishing of the petals has added the effect of dimension, which is accented as one tilts the painting or shifts the eye. Two opened flowers are flanked by buds, the tip of each touching or almost touching one of the opened flowers. Even the leaf tips seem to point to the large central flower. The composition is further strengthened by an inchoate background, bluish behind the flowers, ruddy behind the leaves. A fly has alighted on a petal of the upper flower. Gurjar has added it, not as the general symbol of pestilence, but for the contrast of the darker on the lighter object. Cannas with Fly, watercolor and tempera by Damodar Gurjar. Born in 1958 and educated at Rajasthan University, Gurjar has made his career as a freelance artist painting numerous private Commenting on whether his original paintings are from life commissions in watercolor, gouache and tempera. He was or photographs, Gurjar states, “Sometimes when it seems that a one of the six Rajasthani artists featured in the Hunt Institute’s subject may change with time, we take the help of photography exhibition Natural-History Paintings from Rajasthan (1994/95). to freeze that subject as such in a particular lighting situation. Visitors to this exhibition will recall his outstanding painting This is necessary since a painting usually takes a long time to of two onions. Two of his bonsai paintings were included complete.” In 1997 he wrote, “Recently I have also started using in the Institute’s 7th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & oil colors as a new medium to make nature study paintings with Illustration in 1992. One-person exhibitions have been held similar effects of perfection, reality and minute details, which I at Ranthambhore School of Art in Sawai Madhopur (1990) was able to show in watercolors.” and the Crafts Museum in New Delhi (1994). In 1999 Gurjar received a State Award from the Rajasthan Lalit Kala Academy Approximately 40 of Gurjar’s original paintings will be and an All India Award by the Department of Environment. exhibited at the Hunt Institute from late April to July 2001. Gurjar’s Siberian Cranes and Hawk were included in Concept Funds are solicited for a 44-page color catalogue, which will Art Gallery’s 30 Curators, an exhibition selected by 30 of be our fourth catalogue devoted to art from India. The Indian southwestern Pennsylvania’s art professionals (10 February community in Pittsburgh has been especially supportive of our to 8 April 2000). To date only two of his other paintings, of publications, and so donors of $50 or more may have their names mythological subjects, have been displayed outside of India, and listed in the front of the catalogue. Please contact Curator of that was at the University of Iowa Museum of Art in 1998. Art James J. White for more information. — James J. White 4 Bull. Hunt Inst. Bot. Doc. 12(2), Fall 2000 Text-only Web site redesigned The Web Team, composed of Site Coordinator Charlotte With the changes to the graphics site, which were completed last Tancin, Webmaster Frank Reynolds, and Site Editor Scarlett spring, the text-only pages no longer reflected our overall design Townsend, launched the redesigned text-only Web site on 4 and navigation philosophy. With that in mind, we changed August 2000. 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