Emily Hitchcock Terry (November 9, 1838 - February 6, 1921) was an American botanist and illustrator.
Emily Hitchcock Terry (November 9, 1838 - February 6, 1921) was an American botanist and illustrator.
Terry was the daughter of Orra White Hitchcock and Edward Hitchcock, the youngest of their children. [1] [2] [3] She was an early graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She studied art at The Cooper Union in New York City. She began her formal study of art at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1865. In 1872, Terry moved to Minnesota where she created a painted herbarium instead of creating herbarium of pressed specimens. Her watercolor images of the Minnesota flora are the earliest known botanical illustrations in the state. [4]
A Painted Herbarium: The Life and Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838-1921) is a book by Beatrice Scheer Smith that chronicles the life and botanical illustrations of Emily Hitchcock Terry. [5]
Neysa Moran McMein was an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P. Wilcox and Jane Bulley and made posters to support the war effort. She was made an honorary non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps for her contributions to the war effort.
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Margaret Lilian Flockton, is most commonly recognized as a botanical artist famous for her botanical illustrations of "The Forest Flora of New South Wales", "A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus", and the genus Opuntia, all by the botanist and forester, Joseph Henry Maiden. She was also a painter, commercial artist, and art teacher at different points of her life. She was the first botanical illustrator at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. She was also the first female lithographer in Australia which gave her a high reputation at the time.
Mary Agnes Chase (1869–1963) was an American botanist who specialized in agrostology, the study of grasses. Although lacking formal education past elementary school, Chase was able to rise through the ranks as a botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, beginning as an illustrator under the tutelage of Albert Spear Hitchcock, and eventually becoming a senior botanist, overseeing the USDA's Systematic Agrostology department. Chase conducted fieldwork abroad in Europe and South America and published several books, including the First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners, which was later translated into Spanish and Portuguese. Additionally, Chase was recognized for her work as an agrostologist with numerous awards, including a Certificate of Merit issued by the Botanical Society of America in 1956. Chase was also an active suffragist and took part in demonstrations organized by the Silent Sentinels, a group established by members of the National Woman's Party. Although Chase's participation in this movement was not always well received by her peers in the scientific community, she nevertheless remained committed to the cause of women's suffrage.
Orra White Hitchcock was one of America's earliest women botanical and scientific illustrators and artists, best known for illustrating the scientific works of her husband, geologist Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), but also notable for her own artistic and scientific work.
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