The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Pomological Watercolor Collection is an archive of some 7,500 watercolor botanical illustrations created for the USDA between the years 1886 and 1942 by around fiv
Watercolor by Deborah Griscom Passmore of Berry variety of peach (Prunus persica), 1905.
Watercolor by Amanda Newton of Japanese persimmon (variety Hachiya), 1915.
Watercolor by Mary Daisy Arnold of the Manhattan variety of strawberries (Fragaria species), 1911.
Watercolor by Elsie E. Lower of diseased Lisbon lemon (Citrus limon), 1910.
Louis C. C. Krieger
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Louis Charles Christopher Krieger was an American mycologist and botanical illustrator who was considered the finest painter of North American fungi.
Pomological Watercolor Collection
…Ellen Isham Schutt (over 700), Bertha Heiges (over 600), Elsie E. Lower (over 250), William Henry Prestele (over 100), and the noted mycologist Louis Charles Christopher Krieger. Another artist whose work is included in the collection is Roberta Cowing. Slightly over half of the watercolors show apple cultivars, a good many of…
Krieger's illustration of Russula virescens, from Thomas Taylor's 1898 work Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America Edible and Poisonous
Watercolor of Marasca Moscata variety of cherry (Prunus avium) by Louis Charles Christopher Krieger, 1933.
Flemish Beauty variety of pear (Pyrus communis) specimen originating in Hood River, Oregon from 1 November 1935 Pomological Watercolor