Cultivators: Mary Vaux Walcott

Womanica

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Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was an American artist, botanist, and naturalist known as the “Audubon of Botany” for her detailed watercolor illustrations of North American wildflowers. She was also a pioneer in photography, glacial studies, and mountaineering.

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1:06.0	Hello, I'm Maddie Foley.
1:10.2	I'm a producer here at Wonder Media Network, and I'm so excited to be guest hosting this episode of Wamanica.
1:17.2	This month, we're talking about cultivators, women who nurtured, cross-pollinated, experimented, or went to great lengths to better understand and protect the natural world.
1:31.5	Today, we're talking about a woman who found the sacred in the sun-drenched mountains.
1:39.7	Originally from Philadelphia, she devoted much of her life to studying the Rocky Mountains
1:44.6	in Canada, scaling high peaks, photographing glaciers, and painting wildflower blooms.
1:52.5	Please welcome Mary Vox Wallcott.
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