Framed under 98% ultra-violet filtering, abrasion resistent acrylic.

This graphite and color charcoal drawing is part of the Flora and Fauna series from Wienholt, a group of drawings featuring the more intriguing plants and animals in our world.

Anne Wienholt, a mid twentieth century woman artist, was concerned with capturing “the curious, strange and wonderful.”
​
Leaving Australia to study art in New York City during WWII, she soon broke with social convention by marrying a Japanese American artist and pursuing a serious art career while raising 3 daughters.
​
Wienholt’s work, which spans 8 decades, showcases her capacious spirit and mastery over form. In her words: “Art is a hunt. The clues are marks on paper, shapes in metal. The quarry one self. ”