Stones (Margaret, 1920-2018). Tulipa, watercolour, depicting a bright red goblet shaped tulip with speckled green leaves, signed in image lower right, titled and inscribed in pencil to lower margin 'Tulipa sp (?T. tschinganica) USSR RBG Kew, March 30th 94', 20 x 15cm (7 7/8 x 6ins), mounted, framed and glazed (36.8 x 30cm) Australian born Margaret Stones started her formal art training at Swinburne Technical College in 1936 and continued it at the National Gallery of Victoria School from 1940 to 1942. The outbreak of war brought an uncertain future so Margaret decided to train as a nurse. Shortly after completing her nursing exams she was struck down by tuberculosis. During her eighteen month recovery she rediscovered the therapeutic value of drawing. Sir Clive Fitts, a hospital doctor who was also an art collector and patron, mentioned her work to the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria and encouraged Margaret to take up botanical drawing seriously. In 1951 Margaret arrived in London to work with botanists and develop her art, working for more than fifty years as a freelance botanical illustrator for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. She also illustrated The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, published as six vols in 1967-78, and completed The Flora of Louisiana for the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She retired to Australia in 2001.
Stones (Margaret, 1920-2018). Tulipa, watercolour, depicting a bright red goblet shaped tulip with speckled green leaves, signed in image lower right, titled and inscribed in pencil to lower margin 'Tulipa sp (?T. tschinganica) USSR RBG Kew, March 30th 94', 20 x 15cm (7 7/8 x 6ins), mounted, framed and glazed (36.8 x 30cm) Australian born Margaret Stones started her formal art training at Swinburne Technical College in 1936 and continued it at the National Gallery of Victoria School from 1940 to 1942. The outbreak of war brought an uncertain future so Margaret decided to train as a nurse. Shortly after completing her nursing exams she was struck down by tuberculosis. During her eighteen month recovery she rediscovered the therapeutic value of drawing. Sir Clive Fitts, a hospital doctor who was also an art collector and patron, mentioned her work to the Director of the National Gallery of Victoria and encouraged Margaret to take up botanical drawing seriously. In 1951 Margaret arrived in London to work with botanists and develop her art, working for more than fifty years as a freelance botanical illustrator for the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. She also illustrated The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, published as six vols in 1967-78, and completed The Flora of Louisiana for the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She retired to Australia in 2001.
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