Jo Anna Poehlmann:  The Shape and Color of Research

�Twenty Tulips� began as an homage to some of the floral painters whose work I had seen on a trip to the Netherlands in 1999. When my sources began running out at �twelve tulips,� I conferred with Max Yela of the Golda Meir Library�s Special Collections, who brought out several wonderful botany books. From these I made sketches in the library, took them home to paint, and was then able to finish the book/screen to fill the box in which it is housed.

The final piece is a unique accordion-fold book or screen. Each image was drawn with graphite and painted in watercolors, lightly copied onto one-ply Strathmore with a Canon Laser, then reworked again with graphite and watercolors.