Mary Vaux Walcott

A botanist once asked Mary Vaux to paint a rare blooming arnica, and that request turned her toward botanical illustration. She grew up in a wealthy Quaker family in Philadelphia and went back to western Canada almost every summer after 1887. In the Canadian Rockies she climbed, took photographs and painted the wildflowers she found. She was the first woman to climb Mount Stephen. In 1925 the Smithsonian published some 400 of her illustrations in a five-volume work called North American Wild Flowers. Browse 884 works by Mary Vaux Walcott from one museum, free to download in HD. Source: Wikipedia