Louise Guthrie
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Louise Guthrie (10 October 1879 – 20 February 1966) was a South African botanist and botanical artist.
Early life and education
Isobel Louise Sophie Guthrie was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony in 1879, the daughter of English-born botanist and mathematics professor Francis Guthrie and his wife, Isabella Grisbrook.Mary Gunn and L. E. W. Codd, eds., [https://books.google.com/books?id=mkfdQ3l1YQUC&dq=Louise%20Guthrie%20botany&pg=PA175 Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa] (CRC Press 1981): 175-176. {{ISBN|9780869611296}} She attended Rustenburg Girls High School.John P. Rourke. [http://pza.sanbi.org/sites/default/files/info_library/passion_proteas_pdf.pdf "A Passion for Proteas: The Botanical Art of Louise Guthrie"] Veld & Flora 87(September 2001): 120-123.
Career
Louise Guthrie was a botanical assistant at the Bolus Herbarium, beginning in 1918, until 1927. While there, she developed her skill as a botanical illustrator, best known for a series of 264 depictions of protea species found in South Africa, begun in 1925, with the last dated 1947. She donated the set to Bolus Herbarium in 1948.
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Personal life and legacy
The guthriae plant name honors Louise Guthrie.Urs Eggli and Leonard E. Newton, eds., [https://books.google.com/books?id=gf3uCAAAQBAJ&dq=LOuise%20Guthrie%20botanist&pg=PA100 Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] (Springer Science & Business Media 2013): 100. {{ISBN|9783662071250}}
Her art is archived at the University of Cape Town. The Hermanus Botanical Society held an exhibit of 76 paintings by Guthrie in 2000, at the Fernkloof Nature Reserve. Some of her watercolors are on display at South Africa House in London.
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Category:20th-century South African botanists
Category:South African women botanists
Category:South African artists
Category:South African women artists
Category:Place of death missing
Category:Scientists from Cape Town