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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 |