"30 of Mee's exquisite gouache and pencil watercolors and field sketches,
are exhibited in "The Flowering Amazon: Margaret Mee Paintings from the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation,
Carnegie Mellon University.
The exhibition, originally organized at Kew as a private showing for Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, began a tour of the United States at the New
York Botanic Garden last year. The Hunt is the second in a list of ...
venues that will house it.
...
Mee's great distinction is her combination of an artist's sensibility and a
scientist's accuracy.
Mee (1909-1988) was born in England, where she was trained in art. In 1952,
she moved to Brazil to aid her ailing sister, and Mee and her husband
established a home in Sao Paulo, where she taught art. Seduced by their
beauty, she began to paint local plants, and in 1956, when she was 46, she
made her first trip into the Amazon.
...
Mee was ... an outspoken advocate of rain forest conservation and the
rights of Amerindians...
In the 1980s, realizing that her paintings represented a habitat that was
in danger of extinction, she and supporters raised funds to purchase 60 of
them for Kew rather than place them on the commercial market. Soon after
the opening of her Amazon Exhibition at Kew, Mee was killed in an
automobile accident in England...
The catalog, with essays about Mee, her comments and full-color
illustrations of her paintings....
"Amazon" continues through July 31 on the 5th floor of the Hunt Library.
Admission is free.
Hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4
p.m. Sunday.
For information, call 412-268-2434 or visit http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu.
source and complete review : http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05201/540415.stm
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