Graphic Vegetable: Food and Art from America’s Soil

These 580 juicy images capture the fact that throughout history, artists and artisans have depicted vegetables in remarkable ways. Still lifes, photographs, amusing antique postcards, seed packet art all sorts of vegetable illustrations have been created to arouse physical and aesthetic appetites, and they are displayed here together with interesting botanical and historical insights. This wealth of vegetable art includes paintings by American artists like Lily Martin Spencer, Ernest Lawson, and Charles Demuth; engravings and lithographs by major printmaking companies like Louis Prang and Company; botanical illustrations; and commercial images drawn from vintage catalogues and seed packets. Vegetables are represented in colourful glory, from the hundreds we appreciate dail, like tomatoes, potatoes, peas, and carrots, to less-familiar vegetables like sea kale, cardoon, and walking onions.

AUTHOR:
Michael B. Emery is the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum’s Educator and Volunteer Coordinator. Irwin Richman works with the Landis Valley Associates, a private group dedicated to forwarding the aims of the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum. They have each authored many books about land use and its traditions.

587 colour and b/w images