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Armer, Sidney
Subject ID: 49846
| Last Name: | Armer |
|---|---|
| First Name: | Sidney |
| Birth Date: | 1871 |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco, CA |
| Death Date: | 10 May 1962 |
| Death Place: | Fortuna, CA |
| Gender: | male |
| Notes: | Educated at Hopkins Art Institute (now San Francisco School of Fine Arts), later a student of Arthur Matthews and Douglas Tilden. Freelance commercial artist illustrating seed and nursery catalogues until retiring, about 1931. Specialized in water color portraits of California wildflowers 1931-62. (from Lawrence, George H. M. [ed.] [Armer, Sydney] In, Catalogue of an exhibition of contemporary botanical art and illustration 6 April to 1 September 1964. Publ. by Hunt Bot. Libr. P. 15. Incl. list of his works.) |
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Alternate Names
- Armer, Sidney
Specialties
Botanical Art, Illustration, watercolor illustrations