Indian Paint Brush (Castilleja Miniata)
During a 1909 trip to the North American West, Margaret Armstrong collected and drew botanical specimens in Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and the Canadian Rockies. She found the Indian paint brush depicted here growing in Glacier, British Columbia. Already established as a successful New York book-cover designer, the adventurous artist realized that a guidebook did not yet exist for flowers growing in territory west of the Rockies, apart from California. She made five arduous trips between 1909 and 1914, trekking with women friends through mountains and deserts to gather specimens and make drawings for her Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). This work comes from an album of drawings given to the Museum by family descendants.
Artwork Details
- Title: Indian Paint Brush (Castilleja Miniata)
- Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)
- Date: June 29, 1909
- Medium: Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with page design indicated in graphite and two details in ink
- Dimensions: sheet: 13 11/16 x 9 15/16 in. (34.8 x 25.2 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.341.2(27)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Margaret Neilson Armstrong
1909–18
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1902 [first published 1899]
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1913
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1908 [first published 1907]
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