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Last Name Greenwood

Given Name Leslie

alt. Names L. G. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1907 in Wood Green, London

Year died 1987

Place of death

Father's occupation architect and artist Charles James Greenwood (1893-1956)

Relatives

Education art from father

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Frances Perry: Garden Flowers of the World (1971) ;

Patronage Royal Horticultural Society ; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour ; Royal Society of British Artists; Chelsea Flower Show

Collaborators

Techniques botanical painting from nature, watercolour, tempera, and gouache ;

Sample(s) http://www.huntbotanical.org/publications/show.php?104 ,

Archival sources Hunt Institute, Botanical Library Pittsburgh ; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library; Metropolitan Museum of Art ;

Published sources Lawrence 1968: 94f. ; John V. Brindle: Flowers of the World Paintings by L. G. (1977) ;

other Botanical painting 1939-45 while in British Army in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, India, Burma, Malaya, Kashmir, Himalayan region, Ceylon, and Australia. See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=3750&-max=25 .

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