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Mary Vaux Walcott

Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940) was an American artist and naturalist; the Smithsonian published her watercolours of wild flowers as “North American Wild Flowers” in 1925. The selection runs from arrowleaf balsamroot and the Washington lily to flowering dogwood, the red pitcher plant, Matilija poppy, red trillium and a blooming pink cactus, with magnolias and a subalpine larch.

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About Mary Vaux Walcott

Much of Walcott’s painting was done in the mountains: she spent summer after summer in the Canadian Rockies, painting the wild flowers she found there. Her husband, Charles Doolittle Walcott, was Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which issued her plates in five volumes. Most sheets show one flowering stem with its leaves on a plain ground.

Trees appear beside the flowers: the subalpine larch of the high mountains, a pine branch with male cones and three magnolias, among them the sweetbay and umbrella magnolias. Pickerelweed, a white water lily and the red pitcher plant come from wet ground; the passionflower, the Atamasco lily and a calla paired with poinsettia round off the selection. Each watercolour is reproduced as a giclée print with pigment inks and made to order in Berlin, on matte 210 g/m² fine art paper or 400 g/m² cotton canvas in sizes A4 to A0.