Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
Saturday, August 9, 2008, at 11:00 a.m.
Join us for an afternoon at the Getty Center. This exhibition charts the artistic and scientific explorations of German artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) and her daughters Johanna Helena and Dorothea Maria. Enterprising and adventurous, these women raised the artistic standards of natural history illustration and helped transform the field of entomology. The exhibition presents books, prints, and watercolors by Merian and her contemporaries and features one of the greatest illustrated natural history books of all time, The Insects of Suriname.
Admission to the Getty is free, but parking costs $8.
We'll meet at 11am, at the top of the main steps, outside of the museum entrance. Please note this is the Los Angeles Getty (not the Malibu Villa).
If you have any questions, email Lorna at gnsi@lornamatic.com.
Directions:
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90049
