Regina Olson Hughes
American botanical illustrator
American botanical illustrator
Creator of the 1940s comic superhero Miss Fury
American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.
20th century Irish landscape painter and sculptor
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Alison Ashby painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.
20th century Irish artist and teacher
Anna Walker was a botanist during the 1800s who studied the flora of New South Wales and Tasmania. The Mitchell Library has a collection of her works including sketches and letters.
One of Australia’s first professionally trained landscape designers, she introduced ‘Garden City’ concepts to Sydney in the 1930s influencing garden design through her garden commissions, art and writing.
Mexican-American children’s book author and illustrator