Valentina Konstantinovna Markova – a master of botanical illustration
2019
Rubtsova Elena | Chuvikina Nataliia
Botanical art has become especially popular around the world now. Master of botanical illustration V. K. Markova (1911–1990) worked as an illustrator from 1935 to 1948 at the Museum of the Botanical Institute named after V. L. Komarov (BIN) (then Leningrad). In 1966–1986 she fruitfully worked in Kiev in the N. N. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraina. V. K. Markova created over 1000 botanical illustrations for the works of the scientists of the botanical garden. Illustrations by V. K. Markova are distinguished by a high degree of scientific accuracy, technical level, elegance of execution and artistic expressiveness. The books which she illustrated were the unique fruits of the joint work of botanists and an artist.
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