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Aime M. Awl
Scientific illustrator for the National Museum of Natural History

Aime M. Awl

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Scientific illustrator for the National Museum of Natural History
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Place of death
Braddock Heights, Frederick County, Maryland, USA
Age
86 years
Education
high school diploma
Frederick High School
Notable Works
The birds of North and middle America
 
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Aime Rebecca Motter Awl (née Aime Rebecca Motter; 1887 – 1973), also known more commonly as Aime M. Awl, was an American scientific illustrator who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Awl is internationally recognized for her scientific illustration, especially of fish species.

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Aime Rebecca Motter was born in Frederick, Maryland on January 15, 1887, to Effie Buhrman (née Market) and Judge John Columbus Motter. She graduated from the Girls' High School of Frederick. Awl married Major Francis Asbury Awl, Jr., on May 22, 1922 in West Virginia and they had no children. Awl attended classes at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she was a student of Max Brödel.

Awl worked as a scientific delineator for the Smithsonian Institution and her work appeared in a wide range of scientific publications and the Encyclopædia Britannica. She drew fish species, such as Daniops Myersi.

Awl died on October 15, 1973, at the Vindobona Nursing Home in Braddock Heights, Maryland.

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