The Gilcrease Museum will do an exhibition (2013) on some of our 19th century folios including the Catesby's. I'd be interested in talking to you about the symposium and any resulting books or articles. Let's talk by email.
Thanks,
Bob
Robert B. Pickering, PhD
Director of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs, Gilcrease Museum;
Director, Museum Science and Management, University of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Rd
Tulsa, OK 74127
(918) 596-2706 Office
(918) 596-2770 Fax
(918) 805-4780 Cell
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] update re Mark Catesby Tercentennial Symposium - Nov. 4-9, 2012- (fwd H-Announce)
9/12/2012 with apologies for cross-posting
Update re Catesby Tercentennial Symposium, Richmond/Washington DC/Charleston, Nov 4-9: National Geographic illustrator/birding expert Jonathan Alderfer will lead the field trip in the Charleston ACE Basin estuary, Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.
Three hundred years ago, Mark Catesby was the first European to describe this landscape and to illustrate its natural history in the landmark book, The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/amacker/etext/home.htm (first edition text, 1731-1743)
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/mobot31753000502945 (1754 edition).
Karen Reeds
(Full disclosure: I'm on the program for Mon. Nov. 5, in Richmond VA.) ==========fwd H-Announce========== Catesby Tercentennial Symposium - Nov. 4-9, 2012
Location: United States
Conference Date: 2012-11-04
Date Submitted: 2012-06-16
Announcement ID: 195241
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=195241 and http://www.catesbytrust.org/tercentennial/
The Catesby Commemorative Trust, along with the Society for the History of Natural History and the Garden Club of America, will gather top international scholars to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Englishman Mark Catesby's arrival in North America. The six-day, three-city conference will include lectures from more than 20 presenters from various disciplines that include art, wildlife, natural history, conservation and economics.
From November 4-9th, 2012 senior academics, historians and curators will gather in Richmond, VA, Washington, DC and Charleston & Kiawah, SC to lecture, present, lead tours and facilitate discussion about the artist, explorer, scientist, horticulturalist, and conservationist, Mark Catesby. Institutions represented in the Tercentennial include: the Smithsonian, Oxford University, University of Amsterdam, Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, Cornell University, Royal (Kew) Botanic Gardens, US Botanic Garden, and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to view Catesby artworks, plant species he encountered and his landmark publication Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands.
The Tercentennial conference will begin in Richmond, Virginia on November 4th with a screening of the public television documentary, "The Curious Mr. Catesby," an exhibition of Catesby etchings, and lectures by scholars, authors and historians on Catesby's Forerunners and Catesby's World, the landscape of the areas in which he lived and worked.
The program moves to Washington, DC on November 6th where The Smithsonian Institution will host a series of lectures on both Catesby's Art and Catesby's Science. The US Botanic Garden will welcome conference attendees with a reception and exhibit of Catesby-related plants.
The final location for the six-day conference is Kiawah Island, South Carolina with events in nearby Charleston. After customized Kiawah Island nature tours on November 7th, a banquet dinner will feature keynote speaker Sir Ghillean Prance, FRS, Director (retired) of the Royal (Kew) Botanic Gardens, former Research Director and Vice-President of the New York Botanical Garden, former President of the UK Linnean Society and current Scientific Director of the Eden Project.
The South Carolina portion of the program includes a look at Catesby's impact on natural history, his connections to other celebrated naturalists and 18th century gardening. Area tours include a Catesby-country immersion tour, boat tour of the ACE Basin conservation area, and a tour of Charleston gardens not typically open to the public. Conference attendees will have multiple opportunities to view Catesby works as well as Colonial art works.
For more information: Kirstie Tucker
Catesby Commemorative Trust
1-888-925-9922
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Visit the website at http://www.catesbytrust.org/
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Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ , 2008 Exhibition guide available from http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4) Guest Curator, Botanica Magnifica: Photographs by Jonathan Singer New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2012
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