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Last Name Janish

Given Name Jeanne Russell °

alt. Names J. R. J. ; Mrs. Carl F. ;

Marriage Frederic Edward Clements (1874-1945) of the Carnegie Institution

Children

Year born 1902 in Marshalltown, Iowa

Year died 1998

Place of death Las Vegas, USA

Father's occupation Presbyterian Minister in St. Louis, Francis Wayland (18xx-19xx)

Relatives Lucile (Cross) Russell (18xx-19xx) (mother)

Education A. B. Vassar College 1924 ; M.A. in geology, Stanford Univ. 1925 (as the first woman); studied arts w. botanical illustr. & botanist Edith Clements

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for G. W. Smith: Marine Algae of the Monterey Peninsua (Stanford University Press 1944) ; L. Abrams: Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States (ibid. 1951-60) ; L. Hitchcock et al.: Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest (1959-61) ; Philip A. Munz: California Mountain Wildflowers (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1963: 64 / figure 52) ; Shore Wildflowers (1964) ;

Patronage Univ. of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV): http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/collections/manuscripts/findingaids/janish_jeanne_russell.html ;

Collaborators

Techniques botanical and mycological pen-and-in, pencil drawing, and watercolour painting ;

Sample(s) http://www.nybg.org/library/finding_guide/archv/janish_ppf.html ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=11350&-max=25 ;

Archival sources Jeanne Janish papers. Nevada Women’s Archives. Spec.Coll., UNLV ; http://wrinunlv.org/research/our-history-profiles-of-nevada-women/jeanne-janish/ ;

Published sources Lawrence 1964: 38-9 ;

other Active in Beijing, China 1929-34; free lance artist & illustr. of biology at Stanford 1934-41; taught scientific illustr. 1936-41; free lance bot. arist, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1949-51, at Kansas City 1952-53, in Nevada 1955-60s; in 1964 her address was 2015 N. Carson Str., Carson City, Nevada.

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