page_title: Margaret Neilson Armstrong
hierarchical_section_title: Margaret Neilson Armstrong
caption_attribution_description: English: Pride of California, Lathyrus Splendens by Margaret Neilson Armstrong In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
context_page_description: Margaret Neilson Armstrong was a 20th-century American designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers in the Art Nouveau style. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers. In later life she wrote mystery novels and biographies.
context_section_description: Margaret Neilson Armstrong  (1867–1944) was a 20th-century American designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers in the Art Nouveau style. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). In later life she wrote mystery novels and biographies.
caption: Pride of California, Lathyrus Splendens, 1914. Watercolor, original of one of the illustrations in Armstrong's Field Book of Western Wild Flowers. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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