Rebels, Scholars, Explorers by Annalisa Berta

Author:Annalisa Berta
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

20th Century

EUROPE

Sweden. One of the most celebrated illustrators in the later 20th century was Latvian Milda Liepina (née Freidenberg) (1902–1991), who drew immaculate illustrations for the Swedish fossil fish workers in Stockholm, working primarily with Tor Ørvig (1916–1994) and Erik Stensiö, whose lab at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, dominated much of fossil fish work in the early to mid-20th century. She also retouched photographs, a not always recognized or approved practice, for his parts of the classic Traité de Paléontologie (e.g., Janvier, 1996).

United Kingdom. Jennifer “Jenny” Halstead (née Middleton) illustrated for her future husband, vertebrate paleontologist L. Beverly Halstead, first when he was associated with the Royal Dental Hospital in London in the 1960s, where they met. She studied art and design at Sutton and Cheam School of Art, then won guest scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools while training in medical art at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London. Middleton joined in writing a book on Bare Bones with Halstead (Halstead and Middleton, 1972). They married in 1973 and went on to write and illustrate many books on fossil vertebrates together, especially on the life history of dinosaurs, aimed at children, with project work in China, India and West Africa (e.g., Halstead and Halstead, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985; Halstead, 1993; Sarjeant, 1995). In addition, she contributed to several editions of Gray’s Anatomy.

Helen Haywood (1908–1995) was an English writer and illustrator of children’s books, including Exploring Fossils (1965) and My Book of Prehistoric Creatures (1970). She was born in London in 1908 but was taken as a child to Chile, where her father, an engineer, worked on the trans-Andean railway. She remained in Chile until she was about 15 years old. Haywood was a keen student of science and an amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Her art was underlain by science, and she did pioneering research into the skin colors of reptiles to enhance her dinosaur illustrations (Connelly, 2009).

Margaret “Maggie” Lambert Newman (194?–) was the chosen illustrator in the late 1960s for several mammal workers, especially Björn Kúrten (Cave Bear Story, Pleistocene Mammals), with Elaine Anderson and Anthony “Tony” Sutcliffe, fossil mammal curator at the NHM (UK mammals, e.g., First Land Mammals, by Robin Place), at least one of which was made into an NHM postcard. Lambert was a regular on the British VP scene at that time, attending the SVPCA and events in London. In the 1970s she married Barney Newman, former preparator at the NMH, and they moved to live in Africa, where, in recent years, she has illustrated, for example, the key Karoo vertebrate Lystrosaurus (see Botha-Brink, 2016).

Erna Wilhelmine Pinner (1890–1987) was an exile from Nazi Germany and, like Tilly Edinger (Chapters 3 and 4), she was born into a well-off Frankfurt Jewish family. At the age of 16 she began her artistic education at the Städel Art Institute in her hometown, after which she studied in Berlin and Paris. Her adventurous and interesting career was cut short in 1935 when she was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and, for safety, immigrated with her mother to England (Phillips, 2001).

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