Paintings of wild apples and wild pears collected by Russian botanists
[Russia], [between 1930 and 1932?]
1930-1932
Cornell University Library
Cornell University Library
Drawings on six boards, 41 x 28 cm each, showing the wild apples of Caucasus (West Transcaucasus and Daghestan), wild pears of North Caucasus, wild apples of Middle Asia and wild pears of Middle Asia. These were presented to Professor Richard Wellington of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Geneva, NY) in 1932 by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov at the time of the International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, N.Y. According to a note with the paintings, 'He said they would never be published in Russia. He was arrested in 1940 and died a few years later in a Siberian village.' Artist: James Sharp Lawson.