She disappeared for nearly a century, and now she's back. Mary Hiester Reid, the artist best known for her still life paintings of flowers, was one of the most prolific and well-known artists of ...

How did you discover Mary Hiester Reid? After I wrote The Paper Garden I wanted to do something in North America. I started to research North American botanical artists and I wasn’t getting ...

Poet Molly Peacock goes to sleep at night surrounded by the art of 19th-century Toronto painter Mary Hiester Reid, the subject of her new hybrid biography “Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester ...

Molly Peacock looks at the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Poet and author Molly Peacock has spent eight years researching the life of Mary ...

107 107 people viewed this event. Molly Peacock launches her book, Flower Diary, a biography of noted Canadian painter Mary Hiester Reid, with the help of 8 Canadian painters celebrating MHR book ...

Join writer Molly Peacock with curators Kathleen Foster (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Georgiana Uhlyarik (Art Gallery of Ontario) for a conversation about Mary Hiester Reid, a painter active in ...

There’s something magical about getting up close to a painting. Nose to canvas feels daring, even when you’re not under a museum guard’s watchful eye. It’s a humbling experience.