Amanda Almira Newton was a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture who specialized in watercolors of fruit. Her work is now preserved in the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collecti
Trapp variety of avocado (Persea species), with specimen originating in Miami, Florida; watercolor by Amanda Newton, 1916.
Champion quince (Cydonia oblonga); watercolor by Amanda Newton, 1909.
Elsie Lower Pomeroy was an artist most closely associated with the American Scene Painting movement and specifically California Regionalism or California Scene Painting. She was also one of a small gr
Lower's watercolor of the Rose d'Italie grape, created for the USDA
Lower's watercolor of diseased Eureka lemon (Citrus limon)