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Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris
Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning
watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers.
Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and
national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of
the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental
travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow
Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary
Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography
reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's
studies, science, and art during the transformative times in which
she lived. Walcott, and other intrepid women like her, who sought
escape from Victorian social conventions and opportunity for
adventure and self-expression in the American West, were gifted
artists, writers, and historians.
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