Roberta Cowing
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Roberta Cowing Throckmorton (October 1860 - July 31, 1924) was an American artist, employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Roberta Cowing was born to William Jackson Cowing (1832–1893) and Matilda Helen Crupper Cowing (1837–1896) in October of 1860, in Rushville, Rush County, Indiana, USA.[2] She had one older brother, Frank Myrtle Cowing (1857–1894).[2]
Career
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Cowing was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries[1] to paint watercolors of fruit and nut varieties, as part of the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection. The collection includes paintings of Prunus salicina (Japanese plum), Pyrus communis (pears), and Rubus (brambles).[3][4][5]
She made illustrations of plants collected in an 1891 botanical survey of Death Valley; the work was published in an educational journal.[6]
Collections from the U.S. National Herbarium published twenty-one drawings of plants collected in Death Valley in their November 1893 issue, seventeen of which were signed by Roberta Cowing.[7]
Today, Cowing's work can be found in Carnegie Mellon University's Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute: Public Domain Images, as well as in several USDA government publications:
- Bulletin No. 1-29, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888[8]
- Peach Yellows: A Preliminary Report, Department of Agriculture, Botanical Division, 1888[9]
- Bulletin, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888[10]
- Yearbook of Agriculture, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889[11]
Cowing was active in Washington, D.C. from 1887 to 1920.[12]
She resided at 1311 13th Street N.W. Washington, D.C.[13]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Roberta Cowing married Ernest Throckmorton at her parents' residence, on December 27, 1892.[14] Together, they had two sons, Robert W Throckmorton (1893–1952) and set designer Cleon Francis Throckmorton (1897–1965).[2][15]
Death
[edit | edit source]Roberta Cowing Throckmorton died at the age of 63, at George Washington University Hospital,[16] on July 31, 1924, and she was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[2]
References
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External links
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection
- Images painted by Cowing in the collection.
- The Johnson Collection, Directory of Southern Women Artists
- Huntia: A Journal of Botanical History, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University
- The Artists of Washington, D.C., 1796-1996
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