The Mead Honors Hitchcock: the Versatile Orra White

Hitchcock combined her aesthetic talent with a love and knowledge of botany and created astonishingly detailed, accurate and beautiful renderings of hundreds of species of grasses, shrubs, flowers and fungi. She also depicted subjects from other branches of natural science including geology and paleontology (which her husband taught at the College). Edward Hitchcock used these pictures as visual aids in his classroom. What remains of Orra’s art, from her sketches, pencil drawings, colored lithog