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Last Name Threlkeld

Given Name Gesina Berendina °

alt. Names G. B. T. ;

Marriage veterinarian in the British Colonial Service Tom (1xxx-1xxx) from Scotland

Children none

Year born 1920 in the Netherlands

Year died 2015

Place of death

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education Matura at Lyceum in The Hague, Netherlands 1938; studied at Univ. Innsbruck 1938-9; Diploma Univ. Perugia, Italy 1939;

Country of Activity Netherlands

Worked for William T. Stearn, British Museum (Natural History, London) ; Botanical Latin (London 1966) ; cartographer for Dept. of Exploration, Royal Dutch Shell Group (during WW II) ; botanist R. H. Eyde ; botanist E. S. Ayensu ;

Patronage Training in botanical Art at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in 1967 ;

Collaborators her illustrations appeared in American Journal of Botany 53 (1966): 833-47; 55 (1968): 399-405; & Bioscience 18,1 (Jan. 1968 cover) ;

Techniques botanical watercolour & pen-and-ink drawing

Sample(s) http://eol.org/data_objects/25437641 ;

Archival sources www.huntbotanical.org/search/?q=gesina%20threlkeld ; huntbotanical.org/admin/uploads/hibd-dangerous-beauty-02-checklist.pdf ;

Published sources Lawrence 1968: 236-7 ; obituary: http://npsnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/April-2016.pdf ;

other Born in the Netherlands, childhood in the Dutch East Indies (Java), schooling in Holland, studied in Austria & Italy, active as illustrator in the USA; in 1968, her Washington address was 2400 Tunlaw Road, NW Washington, D.C., later at 532 Cortez St, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=15400&-max=25 .

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