Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922,
Jamaica
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– 11 August 1993,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe,
was a Jamaica-born American
botanical artist.
Life and family
Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Jamaica on 29 July 1922 in a family of Robert Stafford Tyndale-Biscoe and Marguerite Eliza Wilson.
In 1948 she married James Herbert Gerrard, taking Gerrard as her married name. They had a son, James Herbert Gerrard the Younger (1954-1982).
Gerrard died on 11 August 1993 and is buried in the United States at
Arlington Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is one of two national cemeteries run by the United States Army. Nearly 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington, Virginia. There are about 30 funerals conducted on weekdays and 7 held on Sa ...
in
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Drexel Hill is a neighborhood and census-designated place (CDP) located in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. The population was 29,181 at the 2020 census, up from 28,043 at the 2010 census, and accounting for over a third of Upper Darby's population.
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Art
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard worked in techniques of botanical watercolour,
tempera
Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...
, and gouache.
Her botanical watercolours and drawings are included to the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the
Hunt Institute
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD), dedicated as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, is a research division of Carnegie Mellon University.
History
HIBD is named for Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. She don ...
. Selected watercolours are offered and sold at auction, including ''Ashcroft and Moore.''
References
External links
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard on FindGrave
1922 births
1993 deaths
20th-century American artists
20th-century American women artists
Jamaican emigrants to the United States
Botanical illustrators
Burials at Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania)
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