Flora — The Botanical Gallery
Permanent Collection
Five centuries of botanical art — from the meticulous vellum studies of 18th-century naturalists to Rousseau's imagined jungles to Georgia O'Keeffe-influenced close-ups. Flora is a gallery for those who look carefully at the natural world.
Floor plan
Explore by room
3 rooms
The Botanical Archive
Works at the boundary of art and natural history — the great botanical illustrators of the 17th to 19th centuries, for whom precision and beauty were the same ambition.
3 works
Living Gardens
The great tradition of floral painting — from Dutch Golden Age still life through Impressionist garden scenes to large-scale contemporary close-ups. Flowers as subject, symbol, and obsession.
3 works
Wild Abundance
The jungle, the poppy field, the tropical forest — works celebrating the scale and excess of the natural world, from the meticulous to the visionary.
2 works
Collection overview
The Botanical Archive
Rosa Centifolia (Cabbage Rose)
Maria Sibylle Werner · 1712
Living Gardens
Sunflowers in an Earthenware Jug
Pieter de Groot · 1887
Wild Abundance
Interior of a Tropical Forest
Céleste Bonheur · 1909
Living Gardens
Oncidium Maculatum (Night Study)
Clara Strand · 2012
The Botanical Archive
Prunus Serrulata (Spring Study)
Yuko Hasegawa · 1987
Living Gardens
Wisteria at the Garden Gate
Marguerite Duval · 1913
The Botanical Archive
Lamium Purpureum with Apis mellifera
Anna Pfeiffer · 1847
Wild Abundance
Papaver rhoeas — Flanders Field
Louis Bertin · 1919