Paul Wilson Titman

…1940 Yearbook I went to Chapel Hill and began to work in the atelier of the art department under the leadership of Russell Train Smith, the chairman of the department….

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

The 35th annual Sculpture in the Garden opens on Sunday, September 17 and runs until Sunday, December 3. Sculpture in the Garden unites the work of local artists with the…

Botanical Art Fundamentals Program

…the natural world Have an understanding of the botany of the native plants of the southeastern U.S. as a foundation for accurate botanical representation Enroll Today Jump to: ➢ Program…

Sandhills Pyxie-Moss Rescue

…bulldozed. Their main target was Sandhills pyxie-moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia), a rare shrub that — in the entire world — grows only in six counties in the Sandhills of…

Alton McCaleb Harvill, Jr.

…He was preceded in death on January 29, 1988 by his devoted wife, Barbara Jean Hopkins Harvill, originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota… [Harvill] was born on November 20, 1916 in Russellville,…

Exhibit Hall

…Our Seeds This exhibit explores the world of seeds: how they work, the roles they play in our daily lives, and what we’re doing to conserve them. Wildflower of the…

Donald Culross Peattie

…of the natural world around the Grove. Louise and Donald Peattie moved to Santa Barbara, California, and it was there that he wrote A Natural History of Trees of Eastern…

Annie Montague Alexander

…ichthyosaur skeletons, including the largest ichthyosaurs in the world and the most complete in North America (some of these are now in UCMP’s collections). For each of these trips she…

Ferdinand Blanchard

…of his life. Linn Rudolph Blanchard, named in honor of Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus, was born in Peacham, Vermont 17 June, 1881. Linn married Sara Etta Johnston in 1911, and died…