Natural Science Illustrators
Merian, Maria Sibylla 1647-1717 (birds, insects, plants)
Besler, Basilius 1561-1629 (engravings of plants)
Franz Bauer and Ferdinand Bauer 1758-1840 (plants)
James Sowerby 1757-1822(plants, fungi, shells)
Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672 (birds)
Philip Gosse, 1810-1888 (sea life)
Catesby, Mark 1683-1749 (birds, plants)
Redouté, Pierre Joseph 1759-1840 (plants)
John Gould 1804-1881 (hummingbirds)
John James Audubon 1785-1851(birds and mammals)
Loius Agassiz Feurtes 1767-1849(birds)
Miss Drake,(Sara Anne)1803-1857 plants, orchids
Nicholus Robert 1614-1685(plants and birds)
Loiuse D’Orleans 1812-1852 (plants)
George Dionysus Ehret 1708-1770(plants)
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgue 1533-1588 (plants)
Claude Abriet 1665-1742 (plants, insects, butterfies, shells)
Earnst Haeckel, 1834-1919 (microbiology)
Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden (1907–2007) (plants and insects)
Margaret Ursula Mee (Mrs. R. B. Greville) 1909-1988(plants)
Henry Gray 1821-1861 (human anatomy)
Natural Science: Linnaeus, Carl., 1707-1778 (taxonomy, botany, ecology)
Charles Darwin 1809-1882 (theory of evolution)
Greger Mendel 1822-1884 (theory of heredity)
Fine Artists or Designers who also illustrated plants or wildlife
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519 (anatomical studies, plants, animals)
Albrecht Durer 1471-1528 (plants and animals)
Giovana Garzoni 1625-1670(fruits and vegetables)
Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750(plants)
Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640(animals)
Rosa Bonheur 1822-1899 (animals
Gutave Courbet 1819-1877 (animals)
Eugene Delacroix 1830 (animals)
Theodore Gericault 1791-1824 (horses)
Edwin Landseer 1802-1873 (animals)
Martin Johnson Heade 1819-1904(birds and flowers)
Abbott Handerson Thayer 1849-1921(birds)
Jean-Baptiste Oudry 1686-1755(animals)
George Stubbs 1724-1806 (animals, horses)
Peter Boel 1622-1674(animals)
Odilon Redon 1840-1916 (plants, animals)
Pierre Roy 1880-1950 (seashells)
Paul de Vos 1591-1678(animals)
Maurice and Edward Detmold, 1883- 1908 and 1957(animals, plants, book illustrators)
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890 (plants and animals)
Karl Blossfeldt (photographs of plants magnified)
Franz Marc 1880-1914 (animals)
Eadweard Muybridge 1830-1904 photographs of animals in motion
Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986 (flowers and bones)
Contemporary artists that use nature as a subject
Anselm Keifer (toxic landscapes)
Darren Waterston (natural objects in atmospheric color fields)
Walton Ford (animals from natural history paintings)
Terry Winters (abstractions of plants, bones, microscopic forms)
Kiki Smith (drawings and sculptures of animals, plants
Tom Uttich (animals in landscapes)
Kevin Hayler (wildlife)
Damien Hurst (dead animals)
Ana Mendieta (earth sculptures)
Andy Goldsworthy (sculptures in and from nature)
Nancy Holt (solstice sculptures)
Sue Coe (treatment of animals)
Artist who conduct environmental/ecological projects
Joseph Beuys (conceptual)
Mel Chin (hyper-accumulating plants to remove toxins)
Helen and Newton Harrison (aquatic ecosystems)
Patricia Johanson (habitat restoration)
Patricia Laderman Ukeles (urban garbage, recycling, landfills)
Alan Sonfist (urban forests)
Buster Simpson (urban environmental action)
Betty Beaumont (ecology)
Dominique Mazeaud (ecology and ritual)
Rachel Dutton and Rob Olds (wilderness performance art)
(still adding to this list)