Winifred Walker

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Winifred Ethel Walker (1882-1965) was a British artist known for her botanical illustrations.

Biography

Walker was born at

Linnean Society.[2] From 1943, she was an artist in residence at the University of California.[2]

Walker exhibited works at the

Paris Salon and at the Chelsea Flower Show.[1][2] She illustrated a number of botanical and gardening books, including Hardy Perennials (1922) by Albert Macself, The Low Road: hardy heathers and the heather garden (1927) by D Fyfe Maxwell and an edition of The Gardener's Assistant.[2][3] Walker wrote and illustrated All the Plants of the Bible (1957). Walker spent most of her career in London and died at Bognor Regis in Sussex in 1965.[1]

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