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Monday Museum Mystery: Who is this Artist?

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Monday Museum Mysteries are back!  In this biweekly feature, we unlock the vault and share hidden treasures from our collection. Try your hardest to answer the questions asked, and when you think you know, check out the bottom of the post for the correct answer! This semester, Monday Museum Mysteries is teaming up with the  Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies , so each post will focus in some way on women and their impact on the world!  This week on Monday Museum Mysteries, we are staying close to Oxford. This artist spent most of her childhood in Oxford, and it remained an important place to her. She loved art so much that, in her will, she left her private collection to the city of Oxford. Do you have any idea who this artist might be?  She was an academically trained artist. What do you think that means? It is a way to say that she learned about art and practiced her art in a school. Like other artists, she worked very hard on improving her artwork. One way that sh

Monday Museum Mystery: Who is this Artist and Botanist?

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Monday Museum Mysteries are back!  In this biweekly feature, we unlock the vault and share hidden treasures from our collection. Try your hardest to answer the questions asked, and when you think you know, check out the bottom of the post for the correct answer! This semester, Monday Museum Mysteries is teaming up with the  Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies , so each post will focus in some way on women and their impact on the world! Today on Monday Museum Mysteries, we are looking at art that connects to science. Our artist was extremely interested in botany. Do you know what botany is? Botany is the study of plants, and this female artist made hundreds of different plant drawings. The Museum has many of her botanical drawings. She first sketched her work with pencil, and then she created the accurate, bright colors of her drawings with pastels. Who do you think our mystery botanist is? In the detail of this flower, you can see the pencil marks she made