Mee, Margaret - Cannonball Tree plant drawing Kew Gardens art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Cannonball Tree : Couroupita guianensis
• Artist (if known): Margaret Mee b England 1909-1988
• Media or other details:  Pencil & gouache on paper
• Publisher / Gallery: Shirley Sherwood Collection, Kew Gardens
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: Postcard
• Notes & condition details:

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Stock No.: A201

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Ursula Mee, MBE (born 22 May 1909 � 30 November 1988)^[1] was a British botanical artist who specialized in plants from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin.

Margaret Ursula Brown was born in Whitehill, Chesham in 1909. She attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, followed by The School of Art, Science and Commerce, Watford. After a short period of teaching in Liverpool she decided to travel abroad.

In 1933 she was in Berlin and witnessed the burning of the Reichstag and subsequent Jewish boycott which confirmed her left-wing views. During the Second World War she worked in Hatfield as a draughtswoman at the de Havilland aircraft factory.^[2]

After the war she studied art at St. Martin's School of Art, London. In 1950 she attended the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, where she learnt her style of illustration, and received a national diploma in painting and design in 1950. She moved to Brazil with Greville Mee, in 1952 to teach art in the British school of S�o Paulo. Her first expedition was in 1956 to Bel�m in the Amazon Basin. She then became a botanical artist for S�o Paulo's Instituto de Botanica in 1958, exploring the rainforest and more specifically Amazonas state from 1964, painting the plants she saw, some new to science, as well as collecting some for later illustration. She created 400 folios of gouache illustrations, 40 sketchbooks, and 15 diaries.^{[citation needed]}

Mee travelled to Washington D. C., USA in 1964 and briefly to England in 1968 for the exhibition and publication of her book, Flowers of the Brazilian Forests. She returned to Brazil and joined protests to draw international attention to the deforestation of the Amazon region.^[2]