biografía de Blanche AMES (1878-1969)

Lugar de nacimiento: Lowell, MA

Lugar de defunción: North Easton, MA

Direcciones: Boston, MA

Profesión: Portrait and landscape painter, botanical illustrator

Estudios: Smith College, Northampton, MA

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

Comentarios: 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.

Fuentes: WW10; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.