Today is Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day.
Let your houseplants get to know their neighborhood. Take them for a walk so they can appreciate their surroundings and grow profusely in their environment!
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Today is Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day.
Let your houseplants get to know their neighborhood. Take them for a walk so they can appreciate their surroundings and grow profusely in their environment!
Today's print by Grace Albee shows a popular house plant—the African violet. Albee's wood engravings record her favorite places. Most of her prints are of houses and farms throughout her neighborhood in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Albee only made a few still lives during her career. She developed an interest in depicting flowers, and African Violet is one of her favorite flower prints. This print contrasts the leaves' sensual, velvety texture against the crisp handkerchief.
Source: "Grace Albee, An American Printmaker, 1890–1985" (exhibition brochure) (Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1999).
Pictured: Grace Albee, 1890–1985, African Violet, 1933, wood engraving on paper, 4 3/4 x 6 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen.