Fritillaria Lanciolata
1981 · Watercolor on paper
17 7/8 x 13 1/2" (45.4 x 34.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Rory McEwen
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An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Rory McEwen was a British painter and printmaker known for his meticulous botanical and natural history illustrations executed in watercolor and gouache. Working from the 1950s until his death in 1982, he developed a distinctive practice that combined scientific precision with an artist's formal sensibility, often depicting plants, fungi, and geological specimens at monumental scale. His work bridged the traditional disciplines of botanical art and modernist painting, rejecting both pure documentation and abstraction in favor of a hybrid visual language rooted in close observation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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