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Ruth van Crevel (3 December 1926 - 18 September 2022) was an acclaimed Dutch botanical illustrator and photographer of wild plants. She was born and raised in The Hague, where she studied at the Royal Academy of Art (1947-1951) and the Fotovakschool (evening course, 1960-1964).[1] In March 1952 she was hired by the Dutch botanist professor C.G.G.J. van Steenis as draughtswoman for the Flora Malesiana at the Rijksherbarium Leiden[2], a position she held until her retirement in 1988.
During her professional career she contributed many hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings to the Flora Malesiana, doctoral thesisses, journals such as Blumea and Persoonia[3], and the Flora agaricina. During the summer months of 1956 and 1957 she worked as a draughtswoman for prof. E.H.J. Corner at te Botany School in Cambridge, in 1958 and 1960 she was seconded to prof. R. E. Holttum, drawing ferns at Kew Herbarium in London. Examples of her work can be viewed on the website plantillustrations.org.
She was also successful as a freelance nature photographer, with a career spanning over fifty years. She contributed colour and black-and-white photos to book publications[4], specialized photo magazines such as Fototribune, Foto and Focus, and monthlies for the general public alike. Twenty of her photos published as post cards by Art Unlimited (Amsterdam) sold many thousands of copies.She has two monographs to her name, Plantenparade[5] and Zwart-wit: vijftig jaar natuurfotografie.[6]
- ^ "Catalogue [of the] 6th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration | International Series Catalogues | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation". www.huntbotanical.org. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ van Steenis, C. G. G. J. (1966-01-01). "Ruthiella, a new generic name for Phyllocharis Diels, 1917, non Fée, 1824 (Campanulaceae)". Blumea: Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants. 13 (1): 127–128. ISSN 2212-1676.
- ^ "Loading..." www.persoonia.org. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ Bakker, K.; Bosch, H.; Crevel, Ruth van (1974). Meijendel: duin, water, leven [Meijendel: dunes, water, life] (in Dutch). 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands: W. van Hoeve bv. ISBN 90-222-0236-4.
- ^ Crevel, Ruth van (2001). Plantenparade. Van alg tot orchidee [Plant parade. From algae to orchid.] (in Dutch). Abcoude, the Netherlands: Uniepers. ISBN 9789068252804.
- ^ Crevel, Ruth van (2022). Zwart-Wit. Vijftig jaar natuurfotografie [Black-and-White. Fifty years of nature photography] (in Dutch). Utrecht: CFM Producties. ISBN 9789082965629.