{"id":38165,"date":"2013-06-27T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=38165"},"modified":"2013-06-27T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T14:36:30","slug":"faculty-recognition-dick-rauh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/06\/adult-education\/faculty-recognition-dick-rauh\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Recognition: Dick Rauh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dick<\/a>People all over the country will soon be able to appreciate NYBG<\/a> instructor Dick Rauh\u2019s work alongside that of other accomplished botanical illustrators in the American Society of Botanical Artists<\/a>\u2019 current traveling exhibition, Following in the Bartrams\u2019 Footsteps<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibit showcases illustrations from a wide variety of botanical artists of the plants grown, sold, and introduced by John Bartram (1699\u20131777) and his son William (1739\u20131823), pioneers of American naturalism. Knowledgeable and worldly, John and William Bartram ran a thriving business in Philadelphia shipping seeds and plants across the Atlantic for the gardens of English aristocrats, where the nature of unspoiled North America was in fashion. William continued the family business and became the first American-born botanic and natural history artist, as well as a prolific travel writer in his own right. His 1791 nature book Travels<\/i> was a foundational influence for great Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Emerson.<\/p>\n

In the course of their career, the Bartrams introduced many previously unknown species, including Franklinia<\/i>, a tree William named for his friend Benjamin Franklin. Alongside Bartram\u2019s beautiful 1788 painting of the tree\u2019s flower\u2014illustrating all of its component parts\u2014is Dick Rauh\u2019s own watercolor of the same species.\u00a0We loved this illustration so much, we even used it for the cover of our Fall\/Winter catalog in 2011! Bartram\u2019s Garden<\/a> felt the same way, and awarded Rauh\u2019s painting for \u201cencapsulating the Bartram spirit of discovery and passion for nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nRauh shows the dried capsules of Franklinia<\/i>, all yellows and browns that hardly look to be the same species as Bartram\u2019s fragile blossom. It\u2019s an interesting contrast, illustrating the fact that botanical art can highlight the vagaries of beauty to be found in nature, even in the somber elegance of a dried fruit.\u00a0Dick contributed a number of illustrations featuring dry fruits and the remnants of out-of-season natives for Carol Levine’s Guide to Wildflowers in Winter<\/i><\/a>, work that earned him a Gold Medal at the 2006 Royal Horticultural Society<\/a> Flower Show in London, where he also gained a Best in Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Dick Rauh continues to serve on the board of ASBA, which launched the Bartram exhibit at the Bartram\u2019s Garden Gallery in Philadelphia in April. Now closed, the show will continue on to the South Florida Museum<\/a> in September, and then to the Cherokee Garden Library & Atlanta History Center<\/a> in Atlanta, and finally the North Carolina Botanical Garden<\/a> at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Recently, Dick was the subject of a profile in the latest edition of the GNSI\u2019s Journal of Natural Science Illustration<\/a>\u2014click the link to see his work on the cover!<\/p>\n\"Rauh<\/a>\n

Dick Rauh also has a couple of exciting classes on the horizon. On July 22 he begins \u201cPlant Morphology for Botanical Illustrators<\/a>\u201d here at the NYBG, and then on August 5 heads a very unique class, \u201cDrawing Native Plants of Maine<\/a>,\u201d held at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens<\/a>. Rauh will lead students on an outdoor drawing session of the unique plant life at this site in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A stand-out NYBG faculty member, Mr. Rauh is recognized all over the world for his botanical artworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":38172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[438],"tags":[1266,3389,658,550,3390,2672,3323],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rauhart.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-9Vz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38165"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38189,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions\/38189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}