Person

Wilson, Margaret Anne (1942 - )

Born
1942
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Botanical artist and Scientific illustrator
Alternative Names
  • Menadue, Margaret (maiden name)

Summary

Margaret Wilson (née Menadue ) is a natural history artist whose illustrations have been published in a number of key works on the Western Australian flora. Many of her illustrations were produced under her maiden name. She began her career in the USA where, after attending a short course in scientific illustration at Cornell University, she spent the period 1966 to 1970 producing drawings of taxonomic characters for The moths of America, north of Mexico. She then moved to Berlin where she painted tropical fish for the Institut für Meereskunde t the University in Kiel. From the late 1970s she was engaged in illustrating books such as Mangroves of Western Australia (1978) and Flora of the Perth region (1987). Many of the later publications of her husband Paul included illustrations by Margaret: the pair married in 1990. Wilson's original artwork is mainly in the Library of the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Perth.

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Chronology

1966 - 1970
Career event - Drew illustrations for The moths of America, north of Mexico
1970s
Life event - Returned to Australia

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Published resources

Books

  • Gooding, Janda, Wildflowers in art : artists impressions of Western Australian wildflowers 1699-1991 (Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1991), 96 pp. Details
  • Hewson, Helen; illustrations by Margaret Menadue, Plant indumentum : a handbook of terminology (Canberra: A.G.P.S., 1988), 27 pp. Details
  • Marchant, N. G., Wheeler, J. R., Rye, B. L., Bennett, E. M., Lander, N. S. and Macfarlane, T. D., Flora of the Perth region, 2 vols (Perth: Western Australian Herbarium, 1987). Details
  • Semeniuk, V., Kenneally, K. F. and Wilson, P. G., Mangroves of Western Australia (Perth: Western Australian Naturalists Club, 1978), 92 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Lepschi, Brendan, Maslin, Bruce, Barker, William (Bill) R., Wilson, Annette J. G., George, Alex and Wilson, Margaret A., 'The indefatigable botanist: Paul Graham Wilson (January 1928 - July 2024)', Australasian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 201 (2024), 6-31. Details

See also

  • Fagg, Murray, 'Wilson, Margaret Anne (1942 - )', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://anbg.gov.au/biography/menadue-margaret.html. Details
  • Hewson, Helen, Australia: 300 Years of Botanical Illustration (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1999), 228 pp. Details
  • Underwood, Roger, A Botanical Journey: the Story of the Western Australian Herbarium (Perth: Department of Environment and Conservation, 2011), 282 pp. Details

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