Joseph Stella is an urban artist best known for his Brooklyn Bridge portraits, but he’s also created botanical works based on his love of tropical plants.

A Joseph Stella special exhibit showing his forgotten botanical works is coming to the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford in June, writes Joseph B. Treaster for The New York Times.

The exhibit, “Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature,” was organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Brandywine Museum of Art. It will open for three months in Atlanta in February before moving to the Brandywine.

Stella was one of the first American painters to look at urban settings and industrial themes. The Brooklyn Bridge rendered in the first half of the 20^th century is a hallmark of his career.

But his other work, of flowers and tropical shrubs, plants, palm trees, palmettos, hardwoods, birds and butterflies, show a different side of the man.

Stella drew his inspiration from the New York Botanical Garden, but placed the images in a fantastical landscape, creating dreamy, romantic and often touching paintings that border on the deeply spiritual.

Read more about this different look at the work of urban painter Joseph Stella at The New York Times.