Focus on Kate Furbish Archives
1,300 of her botanical portraits are part of the Bowdoin College Library’s George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. More than thirty of these works are now on display as part of the Museum’s new exhibition, Kate Furbish and Edwin Hale Lincoln: New England Botanical Studies.
The exhibition is a collaboration with the New York Public Library, which holds the work of fellow botanist and photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln. Melissa Cullina a research botanist at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens also partnered in the creation of this exhibition. Cullina first discovered the Furbish’s work as a graduate student at the University of Maine in 1996. Over the years, she has developed a deep knowledge of Furbish and her botanical watercolors. Cullina will present a noon-time gallery talk on November 7 at the Museum.