Sketch of a peony from The Florist (1760) (all images courtesy Peter H. Raven Library/Missouri Botanical Garden) “My personal theory is that in this mid-18th-century time of worldwide exploration, ...

Thomas Baines (1820-75), illustration of Crinum crassicaule (© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Cover of Botanical Sketchbooks by Helen and William Bynum (courtesy Princeton ...

Every month on Lake Effect, we partner with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month Series to bring you new reading recommendations. Today’s recommendations are from Sarah Finn, the ...

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...

The most wonderful thing happened when I was four years old, so thrilling it imprinted as one of my very first memories that to this day remains golden as a summer sunrise, so life-changing it planted ...

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