This detail of William Trost Richards's "Flora," included in theMcMullen's "Hieroglyphs of Landscape" on the artist, has us feeling spring. Richards began his artistic career committed to the close study of nature and detail espoused by John Ruskin and practiced by the English Pre-Raphaelites. Richards’s early paintings, like this one, display his mastery of this nearly photographic English style. He treats each small corner of nature as a microcosm of the larger universe.⠀ ⠀ #McMullenFromHome #MuseumFromHome #WeAreBC #BCGetInvolved #BC2020 #BC2021 #BC2022 #BC2023 #BC2024