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Last Name Smith

Given Name Elmer W.

alt. Names E. W. S. ;

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Year born 1920

Year died 1981

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Education self-taught in art; MS from University of Massachusetts

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Oakes Ames ; Paul Mangelsdorf ; Gordon W. Dillon, F. S. Shuttleworth & H. S. Zim: Orchids. A Golden Nature Guide ; Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001): Hallucinogenic Plants ;

Patronage 1934 Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Botanical Museum of Harvard University

Collaborators artist Gordon Winston Dillon ; Charles Schweinfurth ; Donovan S. Correll ;

Techniques botanical drawing and painting

Sample(s) http://www.asba-art.org/article/botanica-collected-orchid-illustrations-harvard

Archival sources Botanical Museum, Harvard, Cambridge Massachusetts ; http://www.zauberpilz.com/golden/about.htm ;

Published sources Richard Evans Schultes: GWD an appreciation: Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard 29, 1983: 70 ;

other Also illustrations for children's books.

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