Flowers
See also: Paint
The Brilliance of Bird-and-Flower Painting: Gems of Asian Art
An online exhibit of bird and flower paintings from the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
MFA: Online collection tours from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Blossoms
Floral Stems
Bouquets
Botanical Illustrations
Gardens
The Getty: Flowers
View objects related to flowers in the Getty Museum.
Floral Motif, Painting
Thirty four works of art and related information in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
Thematic Essays in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Botanical Imagery in European Painting
Gardens in the French Renaissance
BBC: Painting Flowers
A virtual gallery of flower paintings by well known artists.
WorldImages: Plants and Flowers
View objects related to plants and flowers from the California State University Image Project, images are free to use for educational purposes.
NYPL: Flowers in Art
Around 108 images related to flowers in the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery.
NYPL: Nature Illustrated: Flowers, Plants, and Trees, 1550-1900
An online collection of around 4,164 images including artwork and scientific illustrations of flowers, trees, ferns, and medicinal plants, a New York Public Library exhibition.
V&A: Flower Painting
An introduction to Victorian flower painting with representative images from the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.
Curtis Botanical Images
A digital collection of around 207 eighteenth century images of ornamental foreign plants illustrated by Sydenham Edwards, presented by the University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections.
A Marriage of Art and Science
View a selection of illustrations from the collection of over 7,000 botanical drawings and prints held at Amgueddfa Cymru.
The Flower Hunter: Ellis Rowan
A National Library of Australia exhibit, view the exotic flower, plant, bird and butterfly paintings of Ellis Rowan and learn about her life.
The Art of Botanical Illustration
Images include herbals, modern botanicals, scientific botany, seed catalogs, works by women, and more, an online exhibition from the University of Delaware Library.
Mail Order Gardens
View selections from the Ethel Zoe Bailey horticulture catalog collection, an online exhibition from Cornell University Library.
Miss Pink's Wildflowers
Includes a selection of flower paintings from Central Australia by Olive Pink from the University of Tasmania Archives Collection.
The Endeavour Botanical Illustrations
View plant illustrations in the Natural History Museum, London.
Perennial Pages
An exhibition of flower illustrations in books since the Renaissance, from the Special Collections Department at the University of Glasgow.
Ernest Clayton Collection Gallery
An online gallery presented by The San Francisco Public Library consisting of 36 watercolor paintings of California wild flowers from the Ernest Clayton Collection.
Transplanted to Tasmania: Botanical Art and Attitude
A collection of botanical illustrations presented by the State Library of Tasmania.
UMass Amherst: Herbals & Insects
View early herbal and botanical illustrations plus insect drawings dating from 1634 to 1879.
Chinese Pith Paintings
View images of of botanical pith paintings from the Harvard University Botany Libraries.
East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art
View paintings of Asian gardens.
Organizations
American Society of Botanical Artists
A non-profit botanical art organization.
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