Moacir Werneck de Castro (1915-1xxx) (sister) ; political activist Maria Werneck de Castro (1909-1993)
self-trained artist
Brazil
Dr. Ezequias P. Heringer, Institute Central de Biologia, Univ. de Brasilia ; Aquarelas. Espécies vegetais em extinção (1987) ;
Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil) ; Herbarium Bradeanum in Rio de Janeiro; Alcides A. Rocha Miranda at the Central Institute of Arts
anatomical, botanical, zoological, and ornithological drawing
www.cyberartes.com.br/artigo/?i=265&m=43
www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n91008528/ ; an obituary of her sister: www.observatoriodaimprensa.com.br/news/view/a_memoria_de_uma_geracao
Lawrence 1968: 250-1 ; Maria Werneck de Castro - uma vida dedicada ao registro científico ; Moacir Werneck de Castro: Natureza viva. Memórias, carreira e obra de uma pioneira do desenho científico no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro: Edicoes Biblioteca National, 2004) ;
Maria Werneck de Castro was an influential teacher of botanical illustrators, among them Dulce Nascimento -see www.asba-art.org/member-gallery/dulce-nascimento ; in 1968 her address in Brazilia, where she lived since 1958, was Postbox 897. cf. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Werneck_de_Castro.
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