The stunning art and inspiring story of the forgotten scientific illustrator Else Bostelmann, offici
The stunning art and inspiring story of the forgotten scientific illustrator Else Bostelmann, official expedition artist on William Beebe’s pioneering Bathysphere dives of the 1930s. Her paintings of previously unseen and unimagined creatures of the deep – some of which she painted in an astonishing makeshift studio on the ocean floor – invited the human eye and imagination into the wonder-world of the deep sea for the very first time, a world then more mysterious than the Moon. Dive in. -- source link
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