Book Launch and Reception: ‘Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors’
Monday, 9/26 4:00-5:15
Kresge Auditorium, VAC

From 1870 to 1908, artist and botanist Kate Furbish traveled Maine, collecting, classifying, and illustrating the native flora of her state. Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish’s Watercolors, a new two-volume set produced by Bowdoin College Library and Rowman & Littlefield publishers and in collaboration with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, faithfully reproduces some 1,300 of Furbish’s drawings.

The team behind the book will discuss Furbish and the importance of bringing her work to a wider audience.

A reception and opening of the exhibition, Botanizing America, will immediately follow on the second floor of Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.

Books will be available for purchase at the event.