Person

Ashby, Alison Marjorie (1901 - 1987)

MBE

Born: 7 February 1901
North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died: 1987
Occupation: Botanical artist and Botanical collector

Summary

Alison Ashby, the daughter of Edwin Ashby of the Wittunga garden, Adelaide, painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers.

Details

Painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.

Chronology

1960: Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
1975: Award - Australian Natural History Medallion

Parent

Ashby, Edwin (1861 - 1941)

Related Awards

Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1940 - )
Awarded the Medallion 1975

Archival resources

Private hands (Robertson, E.L.)

Alison Marjorie Ashby - Records, 1901 - 1987; Private hands (Robertson, E.L.). Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

Ashby, Alison, Alison Ashby's wildflowers of southern Australia (Adelaide: South Australian Museum Board and Botanic Gardens, 1981), 80 pp. Details

Book Sections

Robertson, Enid, 'Ashby, Alison Marjorie (1901-1987), Botanical Artist and Plant Collector' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), p. 35. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ashby-alison-marjorie-12151. Details

Journal Articles

Corrick, M. G., 'Alison M. Ashby, 1975. Australian Natural History Medallionist', The Victorian naturalist, 93 (3) (1976), 95-96. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17000830. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94478522. Details
'Ashby, Alison M (1901-1987)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1234864. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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