[SOA] FW: [SWON Libraries] Lloyd Library Announces Spring Exhibits

[Anna Heran]

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PRESS RELEASE

                     

Contact:  Maggie Heran, Director

Lloyd Library & Museum

513-721-3707

mheran at lloydlibrary.org

 

 

For Immediate Release-April 27, 2010

 

Lloyd Library Announces Spring Exhibits

"Paradise Found: Discovery and Re-Discovery of the Natural American
Landscape"

 

     

The Lloyd Library and Museum proudly announces its Spring Exhibits.  The
Lloyd Gallery will display the oil paintings of local nature artist,
Mary Louise Holt, whose works depict the wildlife, landscape, and
indigenous people that once thrived on the Ohio lands before European
settlement.  The opening reception, Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4-7 p.m.,
will feature a lecture by the artist, "The Great Ohio Wilderness and Its
Native People."  Another lecture by Miami University professor Kevin
Armitage, "The Nature Study Movement: Its History and Why We Still Need
It," will cover material in his recent book on 19th century Americans'
efforts to re-discover what was left of the natural environment and to
escape the industrialized world they had created.  Lectures begin at
4:30 p.m.  Exhibits will run through August 27, 2010.

 

A complementary book exhibit will feature books from Lloyd's collection
containing narrative descriptions written by late 18th- and early
19th-century explorers of North America that Holt used to inform her
paintings.  In addition, several of Lloyd's early 20th century books on
Nature Study will be on display, including works by Liberty Hyde Bailey,
Anna Comstock, and other leaders of the movement, as well as teachers'
guides published by Cornell University, the institutional leader of the
movement, and several books on plants, insects, and fields written for
children.  For more information, call 513-721-3707; or, visit Lloyd's
website at www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

The Lloyd Library and Museum, located at 917 Plum Street, downtown
Cincinnati, is a local and regional treasure.  The library was developed
in the nineteenth century by the Lloyd brothers-John Uri, Curtis Gates,
and Nelson Ashley to provide reference sources for Lloyd Brothers
Pharmacists, Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the
period.  Today the library is recognized worldwide by the scientific
community as a vital research center. The library holds, acquires, and
provides access to both historic and current materials on the subjects
of pharmacy, botany, horticulture, herbal and alternative medicine,
pharmacognosy, and related topics.  Although our collections have a
scientific focus, they also have relevance to humanities topics, such as
visual arts and foreign languages through resources that feature
botanical and natural history illustrations, original artworks, and
travel literature, thereby revealing the convergence of science and art.
The Lloyd is open to anyone with an interest in these topics.  Free
parking is available for patrons and visitors behind the library
building.  For more information, visit the Lloyd website at
www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Open the third Saturday of the month, September through May, 9:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m.

 

 

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life

 

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