200 original watercolors of aquatic species by amateur artist Isabel L. Fottler Schubert.
Isabel L. Fottler Schubert Watercolor Illustrations, circa 1939 (SMC 166)
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Isabel L. Fottler Schubert (1891-1978) was an amateur watercolorist. In the 1930s she painted a series of over 200 watercolors of aquatic species, many completed while she lived in Cortez, Florida. She alleged that specimen models for these artworks were obtained for her by local fishermen. She exhibited her artworks at the 1939 World's Fair in New York, as well as in galleries in Florida. She sought to have the fish images published, but was not successful. In 1974 she came into contact with Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in San Diego, who encouraged her to donate this collection of her work to the SIO Library.
Isabel L. Fottler Schubert (1891-1978) was an amateur watercolorist. In the 1930s she painted this series of 200 watercolors of aquatic species, many completed while she lived in Cortez, Florida. The paintings were arranged by Schubert into eight groups, and include sharks, rays, morays, coral reef fishes and popular game fishes of the Atlantic, bottom fishes of the Florida coast, Gulf of Mexico fishes, fishes common around Cape Cod, Southern California marine fishes, and fishes of lakes and streams. A detailed index of the artworks, by group, is in Box 1.
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