page_title: Harriet Bennett Strandberg
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Bennett Strandberg
caption_attribution_description: Harriet Bennett Cornell class photo from the 1936 Cornellian
context_page_description: Harriet Bennett Strandberg was an American artist. She is known for scientific art such as appeared in the William Beebe monograph of deep-sea dragonfish for the New York Zoological Society Zoologica. She worked in a variety of media such as Oil Painting, Ink and Pencil Drawing, Etching, Paper folding, Japanese ink brush, Silk Screen, Photography, Oil and Soft Pastels, and Egg folk art.
  Born in Glens Falls, New York, Harriet graduated from Cornell in 1936, continued to study art, and worked at New York Zoological Society. She was initiated into Alpha Alpha Gamma - National Fraternity of Women in Architecture and its Allied Arts.
  In the 1939 Annual report of the New York Zoological society William Beebe, Director of Tropical Research, wrote:
  ″ Miss Bennett has given her entire time to the Department as artist, both in the Zoological Park laboratory and in Bermuda. She has completed upwards of 193 drawings, of which seventy-seven appeared in the monograph of deep-sea dragonfish. ″
context_section_description: Harriet Bennett Strandberg (born Harriet Elizabeth Bennett; April 28, 1914 – January 9, 1991) was an American artist. She is known for scientific art such as appeared in the William Beebe monograph of deep-sea dragonfish for the New York Zoological Society Zoologica. She worked in a variety of media such as Oil Painting, Ink and Pencil Drawing, Etching, Paper folding, Japanese ink brush, Silk Screen, Photography, Oil and Soft Pastels, and Egg folk art ( Ukrainian wax resist ).
  Born in Glens Falls, New York, Harriet graduated from Cornell in 1936, continued to study art, and worked at New York Zoological Society. She was initiated into Alpha Alpha Gamma - National Fraternity of Women in Architecture and its Allied Arts.
  In the 1939 Annual report of the New York Zoological society William Beebe, Director of Tropical Research, wrote:
  ″ Miss Bennett has given her entire time to the Department as artist, both in the Zoological Park laboratory and in Bermuda. She has completed upwards of 193 drawings, of which seventy-seven appeared in the monograph of deep-sea dragonfish. ″
  The naturalist William Beebe, was her cousin, and had influence on her appreciation of science and nature along with technical art; as did her father Harry Bennett who graduated from Princeton University and worked as civil engineer and as forester for paper industry.
  In 1947 Harriet married the scientist Malcom W. P. Strandberg, who became a physics professor at MIT.
  She was influenced by woodcut engraver and friend Elfriede Abbe, and also followed other artists such as Clare Leighton in the 1930s.
  Her mother Elizabeth Chandler Clark, and grandmother Abby Rogers Clark, both had an impact on Harriet's appreciation of the arts.
caption: Harriet at Cornell
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