Title & Author:

An illustrated catalog of American fruits & nuts : the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection / contributors: Adam Leith Gollner, Jacqueline Landey, John McPhee, Michael Pollan, Marina Vitaglione.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Atelier Éditions, [2021]
©2021

Description:

384 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Artists include: Deborah Griscom Passmore; Amanda Almira Newton; Mary Daisy Arnold; Royal Charles Steadman; James Marion Shull; Ellen Isham Schutt; Bertha Heiges; Elsie E. Lower; William Henry Prestele; Louis Charles Christopher Krieger, M. Strange; Harriet Thompson; Frank Muller; Roberta Cowing; Henry Van Deman; J.F. Brewer; W.L. Burn; Katherine Mayo; Eliza Swann; Charles Hopkins; J. Sedgwick.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-381) and index.
Introduction -- Artists -- Artworks: Pomes ; Citrus ; Drupes ; Berries & small fruit ; Melons ; Tropical & subtropical fruit ; Nuts & miscellaneous -- Literary fruits -- Appendix.
Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2023

Summary:

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pomological Watercolor Collection contains 7,584 watercolor paintings of cultivated fruit and nut varieties, alongside specimens gathered around the world and introduced by USDA plant explorers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These remarkable, botanically accurate watercolors were painted by twenty-one professional artists (including ten women) employed by the USDA between 1886 and 1942. Produced largely before the widespread use of photography, the watercolors were created and published to aid identification and examination of fruit varieties for the nation's fruit growers.

Resources:
Entire watercolor collection

ISBN:

9781733622042 (hardcover)
1733622047 (hardcover)

Subject:

Fruit in art Catalogs.
Watercolor painting United States 19th century.
Botanical illustration United States Catalogs.
Botanical illustration United States History.
Botanical illustration History.
Fruits Catalogues.
Aquarelle États-Unis 19e siècle.
Illustration botanique Histoire.
Illustration botanique Catalogues.
Fruits dans l'art Catalogues.
Illustration botanique États-Unis Catalogues.
Illustration botanique États-Unis Histoire.
Botanical illustration
Fruit
Watercolor painting
United States

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
History
Catalogs
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Gollner, Adam, 1976- author.
Landey, Jacqueline, contributor.
McPhee, John, 1931- contributor.
Pollan, Michael, contributor.
Vitaglione, Marina, contributor.
National Agricultural Library (U.S.). Special Collections, owner.
United States. Department of Agriculture, sponsoring body.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309916
Call No.: BIB 255059
Status: Available