Tulipae Hortorum

Award-winning photographer Jonathan Singer has produced another remarkable artistic feat--"Tulipae Hortorum," a collector's portfolio of ten magnificent prints of tulips. Now Singer focuses his lens on this popular garden plant in breathtaking, close-up portraits that reveal the delicate structure of the tulip at a level of detail unachievable with brush and paint. "Tulipae Hortorum" includes ten 24 x 30 in. prints on museum-quality paper housed in an elegant clamshell box, issued in a strictly limited edition of thirty-three sets. The original edition of "Tulipae Hortorum," consisting of a double-elephant size, hand-bound volume was limited to a single copy, which was donated to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in 2009. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Carl Linneaus, the father of taxonomy and classification, who named the genus "Tulipa." Ten of the most outstanding portraits from this volume were selected for this collector's portfolio. Inspired by the work of the great botanical artists that came before him, Dr. Singer has developed a style of modern digital photography that possesses both the clarity and the artistry of traditional botanical illustration. Presenting various tulips, including three portraits of the same hybrid at different life stages, Singer's photography gorgeously captures the myriad forms and subtle colors of each flower. "Tulipae Hortorum" continues Dr. Singer's successful "Botanica Magnifica" collaboration with W. John Kress, Curator of Botany and Research Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, and Marc Hachadourian, Curator of Glasshouse Collections at the New York Botanical Garden. In a moving dedication Dr. Kress explains "Tulipae"'s integration of art and science and in an engaging introduction Hachadourian describes the tulip's surprisingly controversial history. In the grand tradition of Abbeville's "Audubon's Birds of America" facsimile, this unique collector's portfolio will be prized by art connoisseurs of still-life, nature, and photography.