Abbie Zabar (American) is an artist and author of five books, beginning with 1988’s The Potted Herb, now considered a gardening classic. In addition to MOMA and the Louvre, her work has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), and the Vigeland Museum (Oslo). It is also in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.