Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman Explained

Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman
Birth Date:25 August 1840[1]
Birth Place:Middleboro, Massachusetts
Resting Place:Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
Style:Botanical artist

Lucy Adeline Briggs (25 August 1840 – 12 October 1920) was an American watercolor botanical artist and botanical collector.

Life

Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Lucy married her first husband, James Cole, in 1860, who died due to drowning in the Mokelumne River in 1862.[2] Lucy subsequently married her second husband a year later, Julius Addison Rawson, in San Francisco. Rawson then died, along with Lucy's only child, in 1877. She then re-married in 1886, to Thaddeus Edgar Peckinpah. They lived near the Napa Valley, where Peckinpah had purchased 91 acres of land. Later, she married James Knight Smallman in 1912.[3]

In the botanical literature, she is often referred to simply as Mrs. Peckinpah,[4] [5] or Mrs. L.A. Rawson Peckinpah.[6]

Art

According to the History of Solano and Napa Counties, California, published 1912, "as a close student of nature [Lucy] has made a deep study of botany.... Her painted collection of California wild flowers numbers over three hundred."[7] Lucy also taught painting at the Young Ladies' Seminary of Benicia. Her artwork was exhibited with the San Francisco Art Association and the Arriola Relief Fund in 1872, and the California State Fair in 1878.[8]

Basket collecting

History of Solano and Napa Counties, California noted that Mrs Peckinpah possessed "a fine collection of Indian baskets and curios," of which a portion are now held at the National Museum of the American Indian, that had been acquired by Homer Earle Sargent, Jr. after her death.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] In 1917, she had gifted a portion of the basket collection, and other items, to the Oakland Museum of California.[16] [17] [18] [19]

Botanical legacy

The History of Solano and Napa Counties, California notes that Lucy collected type material for multiple Californian species, two of which eponymise one of her married names: Rawson. These are:

Species collected by Lucy are today held by the Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Gardens,[20] the Greene-Nieuwland Herbarium at the University of Notre Dame,[21] and the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.[22]

Notes and References

  1. Yerger . Rebecca . 18 June 2011 . Three women found their muses in the flora of Napa County . https://web.archive.org/web/20220301232345/https://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/three-women-found-their-muses-in-the-flora-of-napa-county/article_cf212e5a-99ec-11e0-aef2-001cc4c002e0.html . 1 March 2022 . Napa Valley Register . 27 July 2021.
  2. Web site: California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations. A Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology . 2005–2021 . Michael L. Charters . 21 March 2022.
  3. Web site: rawsonia'na/rawsonia'nus . California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations . Michael L. Charters . 2 May 2022.
  4. Book: Jepson, Willis Linn . 1901 . A flora of western middle California . Berkeley, California . Encina Pub. Co. . 434.
  5. Greene . E.L. . 1900 . Studies in the Cruciferae-iii . Pittonia . 4 . 191 .
  6. Greene . E.L. . 1900 . New or Noteworthy Species . Pittonia . 2 . 166 .
  7. Book: Gregory, Thomas Jefferson . 1912 . History of Solano and Napa counties, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. . Los Angeles, California . Historic record company . 429 . 2027/loc.ark:/13960/t8md04f63 .
  8. Book: Hughes, Edan Milton . 2002 . Artists in California, 1786-1940: L-Z . California . Crocker Art Museum . 915. 9781884038082 .
  9. Web site: Spotlight on Collections: Expanding Both What We Know and What's Available Online . Galban . Maria . 14 January 2020 . Smithsonian Voices . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022 . The Western Mono coiled basket jar shown above entered the collections of the Museum of the American Indian in 1929 as a gift from Homer E. Sargent Jr. (1875–1957). The original catalog card includes only Sargent's name as the collector and donor. However, Sargent's original catalog information, which sat elsewhere in our archives, indicates that this basket was made by Mary Burkhead, a Western Mono woman from North Fork, California, and acquired from her around 1900. The basket was part of the collection of Lucy A. Peckinpah (1840–1920) of Napa, California, until Sargent purchased it from her estate in 1921. With this additional information, two previously unknown individuals are now associated with this basket, including the Native artist..
  10. Web site: Winnowing basket . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  11. Web site: Basket bowl . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  12. Web site: Basket bowl . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  13. Web site: Basket bowl . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  14. Web site: Basket bowl . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  15. Web site: Basket jar . National Museum of the American Indian . Smithsonian Museum . 2 May 2022.
  16. Web site: Bayberry tallow, Gift of Mrs. Lucy A. Smallman H23.1727A . Oakland Museum of California . 18 May 2022.
  17. Web site: Chukchansi, Yokuts basket tray, Gift of Mrs. Lucy A. Smallman H16.2981 . Oakland Museum of California . 18 May 2022.
  18. Web site: Mary ~ basketmaker, Southern Miwok basket bowl, Gift of Mrs. Lucy A. Smallman H16.2979 . Oakland Museum of California . 18 May 2022.
  19. Web site: platter 1827, Gift of Mrs. Lucy A. Smallman H23.1736 . Oakland Museum of California . 18 May 2022.
  20. Web site: Specimen List - the William & Lynda Steere Herbarium .
  21. Web site: JSTOR Global Plants: Search Results .
  22. Web site: Partners .

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