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Last Name Benson
Given Name Mary Foley °
alt. Names M. F. B. ;
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Year born 1905 in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA
Year died 1992
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Education graduate from National School of Fine & Applied Art ; studied at Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC & Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles 1948-51
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for Howard L. McKenzie: Mealybugs of California ; several entomologists at the University of California ; 1952 Yearbook of Agriculture ;
Patronage 1948-51 Chief Scientific Illustrator of Bureau of Entomology, U.S. Dept. of Agricicuture; Smithsonian Natural History Museum,
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Techniques botanical, zoological, and entomological watercolour and painting
Sample(s) http://bugwoodcloud.org/images/768x512/5006076.jpg & bugwoodcloud.org/images/768x512/5006080.jpg & bugwoodcloud.org/images/768x512/5006081.jpg
Archival sources www.forestryimages.org/browse/autimages.cfm?aut=43317 ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=825&-max=25
Published sources Lawrence 1964: 18 ;
other in 1950, Mary Benson relocated to the west coast and established a studio in Hollywood, CA at 8724 West 3rd Str., Los Angeles. In 1964 she moved to Davis, CA where illustrated insects for var. entomologists of the University of California.
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