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Watercolor painting -- 20th century.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS444
Scope and Contents This collection includes copies of watercolors of a variety of locations around Atlanta, including the First National Bank of Atlanta, the commissioner of the work; Georgia Capitol; Grady Memorial Hospital; Piedmont Park; Emory University; Peachtree Street; Muse's Department Store; First Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia; and the Lockheed Martin in Marietta, Georgia. Also included are interleaving pages for each painting with descriptive information. Please note this collection contains...
Dates: 1959
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Ben Shute watercolors for First National Bank of Atlanta

C. Helen Jennison Plane collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS457
Scope and Content

This collection contains a scrapbook compiled by Caroline Helen Jennison Plane and is filled with her paintings of plants. The scrapbook also includes newspaper clippings regarding the death of Mrs. Plane.

Dates: 1881-1906, 1925
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / C. Helen Jennison Plane collection

Irene Rose Smillie visual arts collection

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS210
Scope and Content

This collection contains cased portraits of family members of Irene Rose Smillie. There are images of Smillie's immediate family including her parents, sisters, and brother. There are also images of her mother's family including Smillie's grandfather, aunt, uncle, and cousin. The collection also contains photographs of Gibraltar, taken by Smillie during cruises across the Atlantic Ocean in 1911, as well as two watercolors painted by Smillie.

Dates: approximately 1850-1915, undated
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Irene Rose Smillie visual arts collection

Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates: 2012
Found in: Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center / Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors