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The organization was founded in 1968 by a group of scientific and botanical illustrators working for the Smithsonian Institution. [3] [4] [5] It began as a network for the Institution's scientific illustrators to connect across different departments, but quickly expanded to include illustrators at other institutions as well as freelancers. [4]
Scientific illustrators represent visually aspects of science, particularly observations of the natural world. The emphasis in scientific illustration is on accuracy and utility, rather than on aesthetics, although scientific illustrators are skilled artists and often known for aesthetic values. Scientific illustration was an important part of ...
Biological illustration has traditionally employed the techniques of using carbon dust, color pencil, stipple pen and ink, lithography, watercolor and gouache; however, digital illustration has recently become more important in the field. Every professional scientific illustration begins with multiple rough sketches.
The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950 (abbreviated DSI) is an online repository of bibliographic data about people who illustrated published scientific works from the time of the invention of the printing press, around 1450, until 1950; [1] the latter cut-off chosen with the intention of excluding currently-active illustrators.
American natural history illustrators (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "American scientific illustrators" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
James Culbertson McConnell, [1] usually abbreviated as J. C. McConnell (born 1844 [1] – died July 25, 1904, Liberty, New York) was one of the world's most acclaimed scientific illustrators. McConnell was an anatomist with the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. For thirty-five years, he drew "many thousand exquisite drawings" of fossils ...
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I am particularly interested in improving knowledge of, and access to, art by women scientific illustrators. This project is an extension of my volunteer work with the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the collatoration I am undertaking with an independent researcher who also volunteers for BHL and who also is interested in women scientific ...