Margaret Warriner Buck
Illustration — Rein-orchis (Habenaria elegans), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California • Illustration — Ladies' Tresses or Spiranthes Romanzoffianum (now Spiranthes romanzoffiana), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California Margaret Warriner Buck (April 29, 1857 - April 5, 1929) was an American botanical artist known as a specialist in depicting California wildflowers.
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Margaret Warriner Buck
Parsons, Mary Elizabeth · Public domain
- Full name
- Margaret Warriner.
- Born
- 1857. · New York City.
- Died
- 1929. · San Rafael.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- artist and illustrator.
- Education
- Yale School of Art and San Francisco Art Institute.
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Illustration — Rein-orchis (Habenaria elegans), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California • Illustration — Ladies' Tresses or Spiranthes Romanzoffianum (now Spiranthes romanzoffiana), from a drawing by Margaret Warriner Buck for The Wild Flowers of California Margaret Warriner Buck (April 29, 1857 - April 5, 1929) was an American botanical artist known as a specialist in depicting California wildflowers.
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Buck was born Margaret Warriner in New York, New York, in 1857. She studied art at Yale Art School before moving to San Francisco in 1891. She gained a reputation as a botanical artist and specialist in depicting California wildflowers. In the 1890s, she and writer Mary Elizabeth Parsons hiked around California with an eye to publishing a book about California flora. The result was the very successful The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits (1897), written by Parsons with over 100 illustrations engraved from Buck's pen-and-ink drawings. It went through many printings and several editions and was still being reprinted into the 1950s. After the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, she worked for Sunset magazine. She died in San Rafael, California, in 1929.
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1857
Margaret Warriner Buck was born on 29 April 1857.
1929
Margaret Warriner Buck died at San Rafael.
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