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| Anna Comstock began drawing the insects for the books of her entomologist husband and became a famous wood engraver of insect subjects in such works as "Introduction to Entomology" (1888).
Her wide-ranging interests led her, later in life, to become the leading figure in the nature-study movement in American education, and the first woman professor at Cornell University.
(Information on the biography above is based on writing from the book, "American Women Artists", by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein.)
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Otto, NY in 1854. Comstock was a natural history artist who taught at Cornell University. During 1899-1900 she lectured at Stanford University and was active in California in the early 1900s. She died in New York on Aug. 24, 1930. Exh: World’s Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893; Int’l Expo (Paris), 1900; Pan-American Expo (Buffalo), 1901 (bronze medal). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); American Art Annual 1903-15; Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs (Bénézit, E). | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
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