Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A. R. Valentien, published in 2003 (Hardbound)

Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A. R. Valentien, published in 2003 (Hardbound)

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By Margaret Dykens, Jean Stern, and others

The definitive book on Albert R. Valentien, the original Chief Decorator for the Rookwood Pottery Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio,  Valentien came to San Diego in 1903 and was commissioned to paint the flora of California by Ellen Browning Scripps. This book illustrates the best of his elegant watercolors of California's plants.
    
212 pages, 325 color plates

Hardbound edition