But Potter “felt that her work wasn’t being taken seriously” due to her gender and lack of professional training, says the V&A’s Annemarie Bilclough, the organizing curator of the exhibition, to the Times. “She collected fossils, insects, plants and rocks, and used a microscope to make hundreds of detailed drawings of her specimens.”Īs a young adult, Potter developed an interest in mycology, the study of fungi, conducting experiments and writing her own scientific paper, which included hand-drawn diagrams. “Potter was educated at home by governesses and was encouraged to draw, paint and study natural history through books, museum visits and direct observation,” says Kennedy in a statement. Some of these drawings and sketchbooks from her early years will be on display in the exhibition. After Nashville, it will continue on to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York.īorn in 1866, Potter began eagerly drawing the world around her as a young child. The exhibition originally opened in 2022 at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Visitors are encouraged to reflect on the show via a series of hands-on activities-such as observational drawings, puppetry and animation-in a nearby 4,000-square-foot space. The show is divided into four sections: “Town and Country” examines Potter’s childhood, “Under the Microscope” explores her scientific pursuits, “A Natural Storyteller” follows her literary career and “Living Nature” details her later conservation work. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, courtesy of Frederick Warne & Co. Potter, pictured here with her dog, Spot, based many of her characters on her pets. It shows her as a multifaceted person who had to blaze her own trail, unusual for a Victorian woman.” “But the exhibition tells a more complex story. “She is certainly one of the most important children’s book illustrators,” Trinita Kennedy, senior curator at the Frist Art Museum, tells the New York Times’ Tanya Mohn. Through September 17, “ Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” will use letters, watercolors, photos, diaries, sketches and more to explore Potter’s lesser-known scientific and conservation work, in addition to her literary career. These hideaways capture not only the whimsical settings that Potter created, but also her passion for the natural world. In another area, visitors are invited to read her books while perched atop giant spools of thread. The outflow is about 20 feet away, about 8 feet below the water level, and drains into a ditch along Cemetery Road.At the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, a cozy faux garden, complete with oversized flower pots, is the perfect place to page through Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit or The Story of Miss Moppet. The lake level is about 5 feet above Cemetery Road at its southern tip, where there is a concrete intake in the earthen wall. The commission could decide to return the waterway to a more natural situation. “You don’t just dam a creek just to do it,” Parker said. The lake is open to recreational fishing he said, but it is not easy to access. At this point, there’s not much purpose.” “It’s usefulness in our hatchery system is in the past. “It’s old hatchery infrastructure,” he said. The commission would determine if the work is feasible and the project is useful, Parker said. That there is an earthen dam impounding the water now doesn’t mean there has to be in the future. The $3.5 million price tag is not necessarily what the commission will spend at Browns Pond. ![]() The dam and spillway projects have been approved to receive dollars from state coffers, Parker said. That is a big expense for an agency that relies on revenue from fishing licenses. Browns Pond is in the planning phase – still years from any work.
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