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Flower Series Paintings in Watercolor This is a series of small watercolor and gouache paintings based on photographs taken by my mother in mid-twentieth century. Mom would typically write the common name and the scientific name on each slide. I now have possession of most of her slides and recently decided to do small paintings of them in order to preserve the archival quality of her photography, as no color photograph is truly archival. Her knowledge of plains states wildflowers and their locations resulted in the Nature Conservancy purchasing the Keller ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. The ranch is adjacent to the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge and is now a part of the U.S. Game & Fish. Uncle Bill had acquired the ranch in 1908, through the Kinkaid Act of 1904, an extension of the Homestead Act. I grew up frequently visiting the ranch to ride horses, explore, or play in the big sandpit that would eventually be the object of the Nature Conservancy purchase of the ranch. Album by John E. Keller. Photos by John E. Keller. 1 - 25 of 25 Total. 62 Visits.
enlarge 84KB, 500x800 1 White Blowout Penstemon enlarge 99KB, 900x556 2 Pink Blowout Penstemon enlarge 70KB, 507x800 3 Shooting Star enlarge 84KB, 472x800 4 Iris 2962 enlarge 81KB, 528x800 5 Cone Flower 2965 enlarge 64KB, 497x800 6 White Tulip 2966 enlarge 65KB, 516x800 7 Blue Water-Speedwell 2970 enlarge 61KB, 501x800 8 Scurfy Pea 2971-Edit enlarge 63KB, 520x800 9 Nodding Thistle 2969 enlarge 86KB, 900x552 10 Red Columbine 2972 enlarge 71KB, 497x800 11 Prairie Sunflower 2968 enlarge 74KB, 800x508 12 Prairie Coneflower 2973 enlarge 85KB, 800x515 13 Prairie Rose 2974 enlarge 79KB, 800x516 14 Balloon Flower 2963 enlarge 87KB, 900x558 15 Violet Wood-sorrel 2967 enlarge 65KB, 516x800 16 Blue Water-Speedwell 02970 enlarge 73KB, 800x501 17 Wild Sweet Pea 2975-Edit enlarge 104KB, 900x537 18 Shasta Daisies 2976 enlarge 103KB, 900x554 19 Wild Pergamot (Bee Balm)  2977 enlarge 75KB, 800x508 20 Blue Eyed Grass 2978 enlarge 117KB, 900x548 21 Jerusalem Artichoke 2979-Edit enlarge 70KB, 511x800 22 Sego Lilly (or, White Trumpet Flower) 2964 enlarge 74KB, 800x507 23 White Swan Coneflowers 980-Edit enlarge 88KB, 900x559 24 Devil's Claw 2981-Edit enlarge 61KB, 501x800 25 Scurfy Pea 2971-Edit (1)
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