Soapbush (or Koster's Curse)
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Description:
Watercolor on paper illustrating the soapbush (Melastomataceae clidemia) plant painted during an expedition Taylor took with William Beebe in British Guiana (Guyana). She used gouache to create the opaque, white hairs on the leaves.
Gift of the artist, 1946.
- Title: Soapbush (or Koster's Curse)
- Creator: Taylor, Anna Heyward, 1879-1956
- Date: c. 1920
- Culture: American
- School: Academic
- Dimensions: H-14 W-10 inches
- Makers Mark: In graphite on verso: "Clydemia."
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Anna Heyward Taylor Artwork
- Other Name: Work on Paper
- Object Id: AZ 1232
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