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Evelyn Dunbar:
Design for the title page of Gardeners Choice, circa 1937
Unmounted (ref: 2918)
Pen and ink and pencil, 8 x 14 1/8 in. (20 x 36 cm.)

Tags: Evelyn Dunbar ink pen and ink pencil flowers

In a cream acid free mount with washes lines

Drawings for Gardener’s Choice, a collaboration between Mahoney and Evelyn Dunbar, were produced during 1937; the book was published at the end of the same year by Routledge. The full page illustrations were produced by Mahoney, the vignettes and much of the text by Dunbar. As Elizabeth Bulkeley notes in her biographical essay, “They presented the plants that they liked to draw, paint and grow. The were sculptural and bold, yet subtle, and unusual for their time. Each was described lovingly, as if in sharing their favourite plants they were sharing their mutual happiness