Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

The duets included works by the following artists: Pierre-Jean-François Turpin (1775–1840) and Irina G. Gai (1940–); Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) and John Pastoriza-Piñol (1975–); unknown artist in the Hitchcock-Chase Collection of Grass Drawings and Marcel Jomphe (1955–); a work attributed to either Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706–1783) or Johann Siegmund Dietzsch (1707–1779) and Damodar Lal Gurjar (1958); Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) and Olivia Marie Braida (1948–); John Tyley (fl.ca.1802) and Martin J. Allen (1970); Jean-Louis Prévost (1760–1810) and Roderick McEwen (1932–1982); Georg Dionys Ehret (1708–1770) and Marilena Pistoia (1933–2017); Priscilla Susan Bury (also Mrs. Edward Bury; 1793–1869) and Margaret Ursula Mee (1909–1988); Joseph Prestele (1796–1867) and Elisabeth Dowle (1951–); Lou E. Hurst (also Mrs. Albert W. Lamb; 1883–1949) and Regine Hagedorn (1952–); Andrey Avinoff (1884–1949) and Albert G. Richards (1917–2010); Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822) and Rose Pellicano (1946–); Kokei or Kodo Yoshikawa (fl.1800s) and Aurora Tazza (1956); Leonardo Parasole (also Norsino; fl.1585) and Elliot Offner (1931–2010); John Curtis (1791–1862) and Anne Marie Trechslin (1927–2007); James Bolton (1735–1799) and Raphael Henri-Charles Ghislain (1928–); Balthasar Cattrani (1770–1810) and James M. Shull (1872–1948) in the USDA Forest Service Collection; Augusta Innes Withers (ca.1793–1860) and Claus Caspari (1911–1980); a work attributed to Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (fl.1787–1803) in the Torner Collection of Sessé & Mociño Biological Illustrations and Lois Martin Povall (1905–1984); J. Watts (fl.1830) and Ruriko Kato (1935–); unknown artist and Bernard Pertchik (1924–1992) and Harriet Pertchik (1925–1988); unknown artist and Lilian Snelling (1879–1972); Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) and Timothy C. Angell (1961–).

Opening reception

On Thursday, 20 March 2014, 5–7 p.m., we held an opening reception. At 5:30 p.m. Curator of Art Lugene B. Bruno gave a short introduction to the exhibition in the gallery.

Open House 2014

In conjunction with Duets, the Hunt Institute held its annual Open House on Sunday, 29 June. We offered a talk, a gallery tour and opportunities to meet one-on-one with our staff to ask questions and see items in the collections. "Botanical exploration in the Americas" by Assistant Librarian Jeannette McDevitt, Curator of Art Lugene Bruno and Archivist J. Dustin Williams included curatorial conversations about three explorers to the Americas who were interested in medicinal and economic plants and ethnography. Displayed were related publications, original artwork and archival materials from the Hunt Institute collections. McDevitt featured Spain's 16th-century court physician Francisco Hernández (1514–1587), the first scientific explorer in the New World (1570–1577), with resulting publications; Bruno discussed the physician Martín de Sessé y Lacasta (1751–1808) and his work with Jose Mariano Mociño (1757–1820) during the Spanish Royal Expedition to New Spain (1787–1803) that explored the Caribbean, Mexico and northern Central America, showing the resulting illustrations intended for a published flora; and Williams talked about the botanist and plant collector William Andrew Archer (1894–1973) and his explorations in Mexico and Central and South America for the USDA in the 1930s, with field diaries, reports and photographs.

Cabinet of curiosities

On display during spring 2014 in our Cabinet of curiosities located in the lobby were the field notebooks of Emma Lucy Braun (1889–1971), author of the influential Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America (1950), from our Archives collection.