Gordon Beningfield: Wild Pink Orchid

Artist: Gordon Beningfield
1936 - 1998
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1984
Image Size: 11.75 by 13.75 inches
Overall Size: 15.375 by 17.375 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

As the devastating Ice Age slowly crept over the world's continents, a lovely flowering plant ... known today as the Wild Pink Orchid ... survived just beyond reach of the icy cold. Blooming in the warm Carolina Hills, this orchid awaited the end of the Ice Age and then quickly expanded throughout the Eastern United States and Canada. Today, the Wild Pink can be found thriving in the nurtured protection of sphagnum bogs, wet turfy meadows, open swamps, and along the fertile flats of rivers. The lovely orchid has been found as far south as Louisiana and as far north as Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Interestingly, the orchid received its scientific name Arethusa from a mythical river nymph of classical literature. Perhaps this was so applied because of the dazzling beauty of the orchid and the wet habitats in which it is found. Regardless of its origins, this lovely orchid stands today as one of the most breathtakingly beautiful flowers in existence. Indeed, setting high on an elegant, narrow stock, its beautifully colored flower is held erect by the rigid scape ... giving it the appearance of a fanciful little imp, with pointy ears and lolling tongue, straining to recognize the invader of its peaceful haunts.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S. 20¢ Wild Pink Orchid stamp issued March 5, 1984.

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