Grape Hyacinth/Muscari Racemosum
Artist
Elizabeth (Bessie) Murray Tyler
(American, 1892 - 1980)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1939
MediumWatercolor and graphite
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 x 6 5/8 in. (15.6 x 16.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right; dated March 14, 1939.
Credit LineMuseum collection
Object number41.45.34
Not on view
DescriptionPart of the Tidewater Wildflowers series, done as a WPA Project. Watercolor depicting Grape Hyacinth.Label TextElizabeth Tyler Murray American, 1892–1980 Grape Hyacinth/Muscari Racemosum, 1939 Watercolor and graphite on paper The earliest naturalists who came to the United States from Europe in the seventeenth century worked in watercolor to depict specimens of plants and animals. This practice endured through the nineteenth century among artists like John James Audubon. Virginia-born artist Elizabeth Tyler Murray, who chronicled native Virginia wildflowers, continued that tradition in this work and dozens of others created in the 1930s. Museum collection 41.45.34 Exhibition History"Watercolor: An American Medium," Photography Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, February 21 - June 23, 2019.
