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A practiced eye for the beauty of science: illustrator Alice Tangerini has rendered about 1,000 plants, delicately balancing the demands of botany research and the aesthetics of her calling.(Around the mall: scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond)
Publication: Smithsonian Publication Date: 01-FEB-05 Author: Boser, Ulrich
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Smithsonian Institution
Alice Tangerini fingers a stalk of dried grass that has long, slender leaves and a knotted root. "I love grasses," she says. "They are so graceful." Tangerini, a botanical illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History, is standing at her desk talking about a new species of grass that was discovered three years ago in the Andes Mountains of Peru by Smithsonian botanist Paul Peterson. Tangerini's drawing of the tall grass will accompany a...
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