Amanda Newton (illustrator)
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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
Amanda A. Newton Evening Star Sun May 23 1915
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.
Ellen Isham Schutt
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Ellen Isham Schutt was an early 20th-century American botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her work now forms part of the USDA National Agricultural Library's Pomological Wate
Amanda Newton (illustrator)
…drawings for its publications. Newton was one of more than 50 skilled botanical illustrators hired in this early period—among whom were Elsie Lower, Ellen Isham Schutt, Royal Charles Steadman, and Deborah Griscom Passmore—and she was one of the most productive, turning out more than 1200 finished watercolors for the…
Ellen Isham Schutt
Watercolor of pecans (Carya illinoinensis) by Ellen Isham Schutt ca. 1904–14. Varieties shown include Taylor, Kennedy, Hodge, Bolton, and Carman.
Watercolor of lemons (Citrus limon) by Ellen Isham Schutt, 1910, showing red rot from five months of cold storage.
Grave of Schutt at Columbia Gardens Cemetery