Rosamond W. Purcell

Rosamond Wolff Purcell (born 1942) is an American photographer.^[1] Purcell is known for her photographic works that explore subjects in natural history,^[2] science, and biology.^[3][4]

She was the subject of the 2016 documentary film An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Rosamond Purcell by Molly Bernstein.^[2][5][6] Her work is included in the permanent collections of: Art Institute of Chicago,^[7] the National Gallery of Canada.,^[1] Museum of Fine Arts (Boston),^[8] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,^[9] the National Academy of Science, and the Victoria and Albert^[10] in London.

Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside, the first retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work, was presented by the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, during September through December 2022.^[11]

Publications

• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (1975). A matter of time. Boston: D.R. Godine. ISBN 9780879231385. OCLC 1656856.
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen Jay (1987). Illuminations: a bestiary. New York, NY: W W Norton. ISBN 9780393304367. OCLC 837465107.
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen Jay (1992). Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-03054-9.^[12]
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff. (1998). Special cases : natural anomalies and historical monsters. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0811815684. OCLC 316821006.
• Gould, Stephen Jay; Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2000). Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609805862.
• Jay, Ricky; Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2002). Dice: deception, fate & rotten luck. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780971454811. OCLC 51502713.
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2003). Owls Head. New York, N.Y.: Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 9780971454866. OCLC 52208674.^[13][14]
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2006). Bookworm. New York: Quantuck Lane Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton. ISBN 9781593720230. OCLC 70174882.
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Hall, L. S; Corado, René; Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (US) (2008). Egg & nest. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674031722. OCLC 225874305.
• Purcell, Rosamond Wolff (2022). Rosamond Purcell : nature stands aside. New York, NY: Electa. ISBN 978-0-8478-7228-2. OCLC 1305438703.