Bellflower

Bellflower

Botany

Campanula

Wild flowers

Botanical illustration

Mountain plants

Plants

This pen-and-ink drawing is of a bellflower (Campanula). The drawing is signed and dated in pencil and labeled: “Bullhead trail.” Irving Rhodes Fromer (1913-1994) was a self-taught artist who was employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. He worked for both the TVA and the National Park Service and later lived in California, where he was known for creating socially conscious art.

Fromer, Irving Rhodes, 1913-1994

Civilian Conservation Corps Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1937-09

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drawings (visual works)

pen and ink drawings

eng

StillImage

20224

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2015-06-01

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Sevier County (Tenn.)

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

6.75" x 11.75"(dimension)

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