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03071aam a2200385 i 4500 001 BF230DE26FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231021010103 008 220803t20232023enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781848225480 020 $a 1848225482 035 $a (OCoLC)1338132838 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d S2H $d YDX $d OCLCF $d CMA $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a ND237.B865 $b M36 2023 082 04 $a 759.13 $2 23 100 1 $a Manthorne, Katherine, $e author. 245 10 $a Fidelia Bridges : $b nature into art / $c Katherine Manthorne. 264 1 $a London : $b Lund Humphries , $c 2023. 300 $a 128 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 25 cm 490 1 $a Northern lights 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923) painted pictures that critics praised for their ability to exude the fragrance of field flowers and glow with the plumage of birds. Raised in Salem and long residing in Connecticut, she maintained a studio in New York City, where she exhibited her art for over forty years at the National Academy, American Watercolor Society and other prestigious venues. Transforming flower painting from a domestic outlet for female amateurs to a marketable commodity for professionals, she never wavered in her conviction that women had the right to shape independent careers on their own terms. She delineated both cultivated flowers and clumps of weeds with an intensity of focus unmatched by any other artist of her era. Often, she combined plants with local birds to convey a sophisticated understanding of their environmental interaction that encouraged others to appreciate and conserve nature. She made an extended European tour in the 1860s and regular trips to Great Britain in later years but preferred home nature. Assembling a cross-section of her stunning oil paintings, watercolours, chromolithographs and illustrated volumes for the first time, and analysing them against letters, diaries and periodical reviews, Fidelia Bridges combines a recovery of the artist's biography with close readings of her artworks. Living an outwardly conventional life, she embraced the bicycle and later the automobile as vehicles of female liberation, cultivated her garden with the skill of a horticulturalist, and left a lasting pictorial legacy to be found in US public museums and private collections nationwide. 600 10 $a Bridges, Fidelia, $d 1834-1923 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000067040067 650 0 $a Nature in art. 650 0 $a Flowers in art. 650 0 $a Birds in art. 600 17 $a Bridges, Fidelia, $d 1834-1923. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00137456 650 7 $a Birds in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00833087 650 7 $a Flowers in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00927909 650 7 $a Nature in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034679 700 1 $a Bridges, Fidelia, $d 1834-1923. 830 0 $a Northern lights (London, England) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012249.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BF230DE26FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search