"Plant Portraits" Opens at National Museum of Natural History

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Summary

"Plant Portraits" opens at the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibition comprises fifty botanical watercolors of pharmaceutical plants, combining great accuracy with sensitive insight, painted by the late Ida Hrubesky Pemberton.

Subject

  • Pemberton, Ida Hrubesky 1890-1951
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • "Plant Portraits" (October 17 1974 National Museum of Natural History)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 405, Box 1, Folder 1974, Calendar of Events October 1974.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

October 17, 1974

Topic

  • Medicine
  • Ethnobotany
  • Botany
  • Exhibit openings
  • Exhibitions
  • Museums
  • Plants
  • Watercolors
  • Painting
  • Medicinal plants
  • Museum exhibits

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