Print:

• Recommended resources for illustration

Cornell resources:

• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art



• Tea House Project - Japanese-style teahouse outside of Johnson Muesum made from plant materials.
  
  
• Designing Flower Gardens - Features How to use color, How to use texture, and Basic techniques. Part of the exploreCornell Home gardening website.
  
  
• Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism - Instructional website provides basic guidelines on acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism. Includes interactive quiz.

Botanical illustration collections:

• Curtis Botanical Magazine - More than 1,000 plates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
  
  
• USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection - 175 fruit watercolors from 1886 to 1900.
  
  
• USDA Rare Book Collection - A sampler of mostly flowers and herbs.
  
  
• Antiquarian flower books & prints - See especially the flower and fruit prints.
  
  
• Missouri Botanical Garden rare book collection - 127 beautifully illustrated and botanically significant books.
  
  

General:

• greenmuseum.org - An exceptional collection of earth artists that spans a considerable gamut.
  
  
• History of Horticulture - Fascinating course website from Purdue University plant breeder and historian Dr. Jules Janek. Janek's esoteric collection of images aptly illustrates the story. Lectures 37 through 42 are of particular interest, especially the lecture on botanical illustration. See also Janek's article, Caravaggio's Fruit: A Mirror on Baroque Horticulture in Chronica Horticulturae, 2004, v.44, no.4, p. 9+. [.pdf file, page down to page 9.]
  
  
• Colour Museum - Feature-rich site on color theory in art and science.
  
  
• The Writer in the Garden - A virtual exhibition at the British Library. Learn how gardens have inspired authors and view images in six chronological themes on this imaginative site.

Artist sites:

• Andy Goldsworthy - See Haines Gallery, ArtCyclopedia, google image search, or many other sites.
  
  
• Barbara Roux - Conservation artist dealing with issues of ecology.
  
  
• Erica Fielder - Eco-artist merges artmaking with lifestyle and the natural sciences to encourage a heartfelt shift to ecologically ethical practices and integrated relationships between humans and the Earth.
  
  
• Ellen Hoverkamp - Digital floral imagery using a flatbed scanner.
  
  
• Seyed Alavi - See especially public art such as Flying Carpet and Tale of Time
  
  
• Margaret Dorfman - Bowls made from thinly sliced fruit and vegetables. Incredible.
  
  
• Patrick Blanc - Vertical gardens and related works. See also this article in PingMag.
  
  
• Pooktre Tree Shapers - Furniture and art crafted from living trees.

Activities

• Growing a Musical Instrument
• Sprout a Couch - Sod sofa directions.
• Sod Sofa - Instructions from HGTV

Favorite links of Art of Horticulture students

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For more information about The Art of Horticulture, contact: Emily Detrick efd46@cornell.edu