Elsie Lower Pomeroy
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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
Elsie Lower Pomeroy
Lower's watercolor of the Rose d'Italie grape, created for the USDA
Lower's watercolor of diseased Eureka lemon (Citrus limon)
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
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…yearbooks. She was one of a select cohort of botanical illustrators working for the USDA at this time, among whom were also Deborah Griscom Passmore, Ellen Isham Schutt, Royal Charles Steadman, and Amanda Newton. She painted over 280 watercolors for the USDA, including both common fruits such as citrus, apples, and…
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