biografia di Blanche AMES (1878-1969)

Birth place: Lowell, MA

Death place: North Easton, MA

Addresses: Boston, MA

Profession: Portrait and landscape painter, botanical illustrator

Studied: Smith College, Northampton, MA

Exhibited: Boston AC, 1898; Doll and Richards Gallery, Boston, 1917

Comments: Specialty: orchids. Her husband was a botany professor at Harvard, and together they discovered hundreds of new orchid species on trips around the world. She made watercolors, sketches and etchings, which were published in Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae, 1905-22. She was also an inventor and women's rights activist.

Sources: WW10; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.

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