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Classification:Art Objects
Object Number:499-2-77
Object Name:painting
Title:California Chicory (Rafinesquia californica)
Date:April 20, 1969
Subject:California chicory wildflowers
Description:One plant with four thick green stems. Curly green leaves all over plant. Five flowers at top of stems: three white with blue edges and yellow centers, two red with accents. Three buds, one flower gone to seed, yellow star-shaped at right side. In brown earth with gray mountains with green accents. Aqua colored background. I.D. Marks: Lower edge in pencil "Leaves white edge 11-10-70 Searchlite 4-20-69 M-15-70." On reverse in blue ink, plant name description of habitat and date.
Medium/Materials:watercolor on paper
Dimensions:Image: 38.6 x 28.4 cm. (15 3/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Framed: 48.26 x 38.1 cm. (19 x 15 in.)
Inscriptions:Signed lower right pencil, "Jane S. Pinheiro 4-20-69." Lower edge in pencil, "Leaves white edge 11-10-70 Searchlite 4-20-69 M-15-70."
Park Unit:Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (SR)
Artist:Jane S. Pinheiro, 1907 - 1978
Collector:Wildflower Preservation Committee