The Divine Sunflower in Art and Culture

Worshipped by Aesthetes, and cultivated by Impressionists, the sunflower casts its golden rays across art and culture. As a personification of the divine and the regal, we trace its history from classical myth to twentieth century painting via Van Dyck and Van Gogh, Clytie and Klimt, Monet, Rivera, Wilde and Watts. Green and gold, human and divine, the adoring and the adored - the Sunflower.