Robert P. Taylor's Flowery: a webbery of flower images 

Flowery is one of over 15 drawing-based websites created by me at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. I spend many hours each month in various museums both in New York City and elsewhere, and am active as a sketch and watercolor artist myself. The works digitized in this site, for example, represent only a tiny proportion of the several thousand works I created between mid-1996 and the end of 2001.

Because I am heavily involved in the use of technology in education, creating websites to exhibit some thousand or so of these drawings was natural. Besides just making the images available to others, creating the websites also enabled me to explore (1) new ideas of indexing images because they have been digitized , and, (2) the analogue between a body of drawings and a statistical population. In this site for example, the 13 images of Irises together give a much better idea of the Iris as a blossom than can a single image alone, no matter how well done it may be. Both indexing and the implications of a statistical body of images is explored in several of the Related Taylor websites, below.

Corrections, constructive suggestions, and general feedback on this site or any of those others are welcome, and can be communicated via Comments, also below.