Art
Blue Columbine
- Item Number
- 240
- Estimated Value
- 140 USD
- Sold
- 220 USD to sm3f9ba9f
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
Blue Columbine, original acrylic painting on illustration board by John D. Dawson.
Featured in Haggis House Note Cards; 1990.
Blue Columbine (Aquilegia coerulea): species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona. It is a herbaceous perennial plant often found at elevations of 6,900 to 12,100 ft (2,100 to 3,700 m). This beautiful plant can grow to 8–24 (20–60 cm) in tall, with flowers sprouting in inflorescences produced from the shoot apical meristem. The flowers consist of five petals, five sepals and an ovary surrounded by 50 to 130 stamens. Five long spurs hang below the calyx and contain nectar at the end. Accessible only to hawkmoths. Pollinators for this flower include bumble-bees, solitary bees and syphrid flies.
Dimensions: 3" x 5" with mat
You can learn more about John and his creative process here.
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