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Dwight Ripley (October 23, 1908-December 17, 1973) was a British artist, linguist, plantsman and author. He contributed major financial funds to the foundation of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery for art. He was a botanist and author of a number of poetry. He also spoke fifteen different languages. Ripley was most recognized for his artwork which were exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim The Art of This Century Gallery in New York.

Biography
Born in 1908 in London, England, Ripley began exploring plants in the 1920s with Rupert Barneby in Northern Africa and Spain. He and Barneby both collected plants and specimens, which they would then grow at the Spinney, Ripley's home in Sussex. A list of 1,138 species in their garden are identified in a cultivated or Native plants at the Spinney, Waldron, Sussex (1939). He moved to California in 1939 with Barneby and traveled massively in Mexico and the western United States, collecting plants for their garden and for herbaria. There are numerous articles written by Ripley about these collecting trips that were originally published in the Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society (United Kingdom). Ripley moved to New York with Barneby in 1943. His and Barneby's plant collection was auctioned in 1951 with most of it going to the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge and Kew. Six species of plant were named after him: Cymopterus ripleyi, Aliciella ripleyi, Astragalus ripleyi, Eriogonum ripleyi, Omphalodes ripleyana and Senna ripleyi.

In 1962 and 1968 during the last decade of his life Ripley illustrated two series of drawings. These two illustrations are known as Travel posters and Language Panels, which are a combination of inventive graphic clarity with allusive puns based off of popular art forms. His travel posters were inspired by his tour through Portugal and Spain. His work was the subject of five solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy starting in 1951. Ripley died on December 17, 1973.

Awards
In 1974, Ripley was honored with the American Rock Garden Society’s Marcel Le Piniec Award for their plant explorations and introduction of new rock garden species.