Graceanna Lewis
American ornithologist, illustrator, and activist in the anti-slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage movements.
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Yvonne Jammet
20th century Irish landscape painter and sculptor
Annie Bellew McCann
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 Marjorie Ashby
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.
Dorothy Blackham
20th century Irish artist and teacher
Anna Frances Walker
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.
Jocelyn Brown
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.
Angela Dominguez
Mexican-American children’s book author and illustrator
Ida Blackeagle
Ida Blackeagle was a Cultural Demonstrator at the Nez Perce National Historical Park who was instrumental to the revitalization of Nimíipuu cornhusk weaving in the mid-twentieth century.
Ann Mary Newton
1800s Italian-British painter