Stones, Elsie (1920-)

Field of activity
Botanical artist
NLA Persistent Identifier
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Biographies

Margaret Stones is one of Australia’s foremost botanical artists. She undertook professional art training at Swinburne Technical College and the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in the 1940s. At the invitation of John Stewart Turner, Stones attended lectures and demonstrations in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne, and joined their summer expeditions to the Bogong High Plains, 1948-1950. In 1951 she left Australia for London to further her botanical knowledge, working independently for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and other botanical institutions for more than 30 years. From 1958 she was the principal contributing artist to Curtis's Botanical Magazine, producing more than 400 watercolours. Her most important project during the 1960s and 1970s was the illustrations for The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, and from 1975 her work on the Flora of Louisiana project. Commenting on Margaret Stones’s botanical knowledge and experience, Tasmanian botanist Dr Winifrid Curtis ‘recalled that Stones never needed to be told, but invariably knew, which sections to draw in order to facilitate correct taxonomical classification’. A genus has been named after her, Stonesia and a Tasmanian species, Stonesiella.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Stones, Elsie Margaret (Margaret) (1920 - ), Biographical EntryBright Sparcs : Stones, Elsie Margaret (Margaret) (1920 - ), Biographical Entry
    [2002]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004310b.htm
  2. Stonesiella
    Crisp, Mike
    Published: Australian National University
    Series: http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Crisp/Mirbelieae/Stonesiella.html
  3. Stones, Elsie Margaret (1920-), Australian National Botanic Gardens - Biography
    Series: http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/stones-margaret.html
  4. Beauty in Truth: the Botanical Art of Margaret Stones
    Zdanowicz, Irena
    [1996]
    Published: National Gallery of Victoria
  5. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  6. Where are the Women in Australian science?
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html
  7. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Papers of Margaret Stones (1952 - 1984)
    Box 1. Letters from: Lord Talbot de Malahide to Margaret Stones, Arnold Hinson, H.J. King, Frank Ludlow, George Sherriff to Margaret Stones. Letter from Stones to Muriel Gossman. Box 2. Letters from Winifred Curtis to Stones and from Stones to Winifred. Tasmania collection notes (1969-1975). Notes for "Endemic flora of Tasmania" (EFT); financial material for EFT; photograph and press clippings of Stones; appendix on cultivation by Lord Talbot; press cuttings on the death of Lord Talbot, Frank Ludlow and Major G. Sherriff.
    MS 7476

Resources by Elsie Stones (12)

  1. The endemic flora of Tasmania. painted by Margaret Stones ; botanical and ecological text by Winifred Curtis
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Book : 1967-1978 ]
    At 34 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.094)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 9.094)

  2. Exhibition of botanical watercolours / by Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Book : 1984-1989 ]
    At 9 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.713)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.713)

  3. Flora of Louisiana / watercolor drawings by Margaret Stones ; with botanical descriptions by Lowell Urbatsch
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Book : 1991 ]
    At 7 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.182)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.182)

  4. Endemic flora of Tasmania / Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Art work : 1967-1971 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.024)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 5.024)

  5. Jefferson and the natural world : a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson : six limited edition prints of watercolor botanical drawings of native flora of Virginia / by Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Book : 1993 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.843)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.843)

  6. Eucalyptus pumila / Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Art work : 1988 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.808)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.808)

  7. Eucalyptus yumbarrana / Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Art work : 1988 ]
    View online
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.808)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.808)

  8. Botanical drawings in colour / by Margaret Stones, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Tuesday, 21st July, to Friday, 31st July, 1970
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Book : 1970 ]
    Languages: Undetermined
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.772)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.772)

  9. Blandfordia punicea / Margaret Stones
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Art work : 1967 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.701)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.701)

  10. Papers
    Stones, Margaret, 1920-
    [ Unpublished : 1952-1984 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.685)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 3.685)

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    ... ¡ law. Evelyn, who departed this life December 29, i 1920. Love's greatest gift-remembrance. ... of our dear brother, frederick, who departed this life December 29, 1920. Although twelve months ... John Coleman, »hu died December 29, 1920, result of aeei - dent. v He bade no one good-b.w, Ho waved ... 3435 words
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