Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board often a few times on

often a few times on a page

Palmer studied at the Arts Students League including under Thomas Hart Benton

which feels straight from a German Expressionist woodblock print

and wearing the sort of brave expression that seems poised to guide many a ship through a storm

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Leaves primitive board often a few times onThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect this one the structures of leaves with twenty different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor (undulate, peltate, bipinnate, etc.) More than ever these days, when delight in the natural world