Friends of William Bartram I
(MOST SOLD -- 3 individual animals remain available for $185 each - Great Horned Owl, Eastern Box Turtle, and Myrtle Warbler.
Wool, recycled silk, handmade paper, wood crates, wet felted, needle felted
"Friends of William Bartram I" is a multi-unit artwork reflecting twelve of the many creatures America's first naturalist recorded, wrote about, or illustrated, or that are spotted currently on his historic trails in the southeast United States.
"Friend" species noted below, row by row, left to right:
1 - White-tailed Deer, Southeastern Coyote, Otter
2 - Myrtle Warbler, Southern Flying Squirrel, Eastern Box Turtle
3 - Appalachian Cottontail, Great Horned Owl, Groundhog
4 - Brown-headed Nuthatch, Barred Owl, Black Bear
“Friends of William Bartram I” was created by Kim Keelor in support of the 2024 Bartram Trail Conference, hosted by the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy which is headquartered in the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin, N.C.
"18th-century American naturalist William Bartram traveled the southeastern United States (then colonial) between the years of 1773 and 1777 documenting and illustrating species of plants and animals previously unknown to western civilization. Bartram was also an astute ethnographer, providing us with some of the only descriptions from that era of Native American villages and customs..." as noted by the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy.
Wool, recycled silk, handmade paper, wood crates, wet felted, needle felted
"Friends of William Bartram I" is a multi-unit artwork reflecting twelve of the many creatures America's first naturalist recorded, wrote about, or illustrated, or that are spotted currently on his historic trails in the southeast United States.
"Friend" species noted below, row by row, left to right:
1 - White-tailed Deer, Southeastern Coyote, Otter
2 - Myrtle Warbler, Southern Flying Squirrel, Eastern Box Turtle
3 - Appalachian Cottontail, Great Horned Owl, Groundhog
4 - Brown-headed Nuthatch, Barred Owl, Black Bear
“Friends of William Bartram I” was created by Kim Keelor in support of the 2024 Bartram Trail Conference, hosted by the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy which is headquartered in the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin, N.C.
"18th-century American naturalist William Bartram traveled the southeastern United States (then colonial) between the years of 1773 and 1777 documenting and illustrating species of plants and animals previously unknown to western civilization. Bartram was also an astute ethnographer, providing us with some of the only descriptions from that era of Native American villages and customs..." as noted by the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy.