The symbolic use of fruit and vegetable imagery in East Asian paintings can be traced as far back as the Song Dynasty (960-1127) of ancient China, where it became a pictorial trend that spread ...

Made between 1886 and 1942, the illustrations were commissioned from artists, the majority of them women, by the Division of Pomology, which wanted to create a national register of fruits.

He attended art school in New York City ... tend the couple's vegetable garden with Marty, prune his fruit trees, and take care of the small flock of Shetland sheep on their farm.