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)
Royal Charles Steadman
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Royal Charles Steadman was a botanical illustrator and wax fruit modeler for the United States Department of Agriculture who also developed a patented method of strengthening wax fruit with plaster on
Elsie Lower Pomeroy
…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 strawberries, and less…
Steadman painting wax models of fruit in 1935
Fay gooseberry cultivar, watercolor by Royal Charles Steadman, 1916.
Shoemaker apple cultivar showing mold damage, watercolor by Royal Charles Steadman, 1924.