Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine

Kate Furbish and the Flora of Maine acquaints a wide audience for the first time with the life and watercolors of a remarkable nineteenth-century artist and botanist who dedicated her life to collecting, classifying, and recording in sketches and watercolors the flora of Maine. Follow this extraordinary woman from shore to mountaintop, through the farms and woods and isolated villages of the Maine landscape of the last century. Read in her own words and see through her exquisite paintings and field sketches her interpretation of the flowering world into which she ventured alone more than a hundred years ago.