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Traditional Botanical Illustrations.
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Someday, perhaps, science may isolate a
gene for botanical illustration. This could explain Carol's unknowingly
furthering a family tradition. About the time Carol's first pieces achieved
success at national exhibitions, Herman Bauer, Carol's 87-year old grandfather,
visited and saw her work for the first time. He then told about his mother.
Her paintings of flowers helped support the family back on the farm in
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He then began to strongly voice his opinion
about two Bauer brothers his grandfather had told him about ("Franz
and Frederick, or something like that") who were too lazy to do "REAL"
work. They traveled and painted flowers! |
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Those Bauer boys turned out to have been
Ferdinand (1760 - 1826) and Francis Bauer (1758-1840). The brother's illustrations
documented the flora found during this era of discovery by British explorers.
Their work is archived at Kew Gardens and the British Museum of Natural
History. Carol's work continues this tradition |
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