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Isabel Bishop Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop 1902-88, American painter, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. Influenced by the New York City painters of the 1930s, Bishop produced numerous paintings of working women. Her pensive nude studies, such as Nude—1934, demonstrate her understanding of delicate effects of light and shade.... Read more
Jan van Huysum Jan van Huysum
Jan van Huysum , 1682-1749, Dutch painter of still life and landscapes. His father was Justus van Huysum (1659-1716), a successful landscape and genre painter of Amsterdam. Although he painted landscapes in a classical style, Jan is best known for his flower and fruit still lifes in oil and in... Read more
Zillah Zillah
Zillah ♀ Biblical name (from a Hebrew word meaning ‘shade’), borne by one of the two wives of Lamech (Genesis 4:19). The name was taken up in the first place by the Puritans, and again by fundamentalist Christian groups in the 19th century, partly because Zillah is only the... Read more
Robert Russa Moton Robert Russa Moton
MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA 1867-1940 C OMMANDANT OF CADETS AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE; PRINCIPAL OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Plantation Childhood Robert Russa Moton was a leading black American educator in the 1910s who graduated from Virginia's Hampton Institute in 1890, then ... Read more
carnelian carnelian
carnelian or cornelian , variety of red chalcedony , used as a gem. It is distinguished from sard by the shade of red, carnelian being bright red and sard brownish. The red coloring is apparently caused by iron oxide.... Read more
cankerworm cankerworm
cankerworm name for two destructive inchworms , or larvae of geometrid moths. The spring cankerworm ( Paleacrita vernata ) and the fall cankerworm ( Alsophila pometaria ) are named for the seasons at which the adults emerge from underground pupation. The spring cankerworm larva overwinters as a... Read more
Apollodorus Apollodorus
Apollodorus , fl. 430-400 BC, Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model form. Among his few known works are Ajax Struck by Lightning and Priest in the Act of Devotion; both were at Pergamum in the time of Pliny the Elder; none has... Read more
Grove Grove
Grove a small wood or group of trees for providing shade, forming avenues, etc. See also bosk. Examples: grove of bayonets, 1889; of ears of wheat, 1667; of fruit trees, 1838; of their own kindred, 1793; of Athenian literature, 1849; of olives, 1667; of majestic palms, 1856; of spears, 1667; of... Read more
cosmos (plant) cosmos (plant)
cosmos , any plant of the tropical American genus Cosmos of the family Asteraceae ( aster family). C. bipinnatus, of Mexico, and others are cultivated in many varieties for their showy flowers in shades of red, yellow, and white. Cosmos is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class... Read more
orchid orchid
orchid popular name for members of the Orchidaceae, a family of perennial herbs widely distributed in both hemispheres. The unusually large family (of some 450 genera and an estimated 10,000 to 17,500 species) includes terrestrial, epiphytic (see epiphyte ), and saprophytic (subsisting on... Read more

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Arbors, gazebos open the door to gentle garden charm.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...of "decorating" her garden to a different...architectural gestures in her yard are custom...foliage. The resulting shade is made-to-order...houseplants like Wood's amaryllis and maidenhair ferns...for chatting in her hideaway. In a ...
The ghost of Twelfth Night past
Magazine article from: The Spectator ...Maureen Duffy. Like her near-contemporary...can sometimes be a shade exhausting. Certainly...continuing to riffle her way through Amyntas...reality a girl named Amaryllis - is brought up by her physician father as a boy, ...
Earthly delights -- Garden tours offer beauty, ideas this weekend; roses...
Newspaper article from: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) ...gardens are filled with shade-loving plants...uses containers so her plants can catch...shade lovers like her 20-year-old asparagus...got a reward for her patience with a rhododendron...perky columbines and amaryllis, both ...
Exhibit draws viewers to a day in the country
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...botanical watercolor of an amaryllis to a huge Jackson Pollock...its central location. Her "Peach Tulips," hanging...welded aluminum, and her giant apple made from...media screen, "In My Father's Garden," by Anne...world outside into muted ...
A hint of New Orleans: on garden tour.
Newspaper article from: Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL) ...hostas, vines and other shade plants, a goldfish pond...grown from a cutting given her by her father, J.R. Sharp, before...plenty of Lenten rose, red amaryllis and blue spiderwort...all kinds of stuff." Her husband was ...

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