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OPENING THE DOOR TO A NEW WORLD: 
MARK CATESBY'S TRAVELS IN LA FLORIDA, 1722-1726 & NATURAL HISTORIES: ARTIST FORAGE IN SCIENCE AND NATURE

November 9, 2001 - January 19, 2002
Schmidt Center Gallery
Curators: Arlene Fradkin with Mallory O'Conner (Catesby); W. Rod Faulds (Natural Histories)
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Mark Catesby's Travels in La Florida presents limited edition lithographs made from Mark Catesby's18th Century watercolors made to inform British patrons of the flora and fauna in the New World. Like John James Audobon, Catesby worked in the southeastern U.S. one hundred years earlier when the entire region was known as "La Florida."

 

Artists in the Natural Histories exhibition: Bill Burns, Catherine Chalmers, Sam Easterson, Joe Fedderson, Walton Ford, Florencio Gelabert, Alexis Rockman, Christy Rupp, Michael Zansky.

 

 

Publication

Altarations Catalogue

 

 

Opening the Door to a New World: Mark Catesby's Travels in La Florida, 1722-1726
Curators: Arlene Fradkin with Mallory O'Conner (Catesby); W. Rod Faulds (Natural Histories)
Curatorial Consultant: Mallory McCane O'Conner
Essays: Joseph L. Aufmuth, David R. Brigham, Henrietta McBurney, Charlotte M. Porter, and Donna Waller
Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space: November 9, 2001 - January 19, 2002
8.5" x 11" Catalogue
28 pages
 
 
Public Programs: 
Free & Open to the Public
 
 

Images (clockwise from top left): Views of the Schmidt Center Gallery