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Latter I will get the stuff about the exhibit out of the car, and take pictures about it. I had the most marvelous timing, got there just in time for a curator talk on the exhibit! And I got to wear a blue tooth thingy so I could actually hear what the curator was saying!
I learned a lot of things I didn't know before. Her name is something like Maria Sybil Merriam. I always thought she divorced her husband because he was a loser, lowlife, cheater or something. Turns out that we don't know why she divorced him. She joined a Utopian christian community, and her husband went with her. She contrived to have him left outside the gates, locked out. Supposedly he went mad waiting for her to take him back (but he remarried six years after their divorce, so it can't been that bad). She gave the community everything she had, and six years later it went bust. She had nothing. Moved to Amsterdam and started a business, supplying specimens, and art supplies to people. She was supporting her two daughters and her mom. Then, about 3 to six years later, she went off to South America with one of her daughters. Didn't quite work out like she planned. She wanted to stay for an number of years, but got malaria, and had to go back to Europe. Couldn't traps off to the jungle like she wanted, was too dense. So the Indians bought her stuff. But not everything of their life cycle. So she had to guess in her paintings. She was know for being lifelike and accurate in her depictions, and she was one of the first to include all parts of the life cycle of the subjects, instead of laid out, adult, dead, numbered and pinned.
Her daughters continued her work, one of then going back to S.A. and sending stuff to the sister in the Netherlands. Man, I wished I had bought the book, but, no, I lost my ATM card this morning at the gas station and I was/am aware of needing cash money. All I bought was a motion pen, Bah!!! Maybe I can get it from the library.