Art Collections

Harry Ardell Allard Collection
Fannie Elisabeth Waugh Davis Collection
Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Collection
Georg Dionys Ehret Collection
Andreas Friedrich Happe Collection
Hitchcock-Chase Collection of Grass Drawings
Margaret Mee Collection
Gilbert M. Smith Collection
Isaac Sprague Collection
Torner Collection of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations
U.S.D.A. Forest Service Collection
Wall Chart Collection
Frederick Andrews Walpole Collection

The Fannie Elisabeth Waugh Davis Collection contains 158 pen and ink drawings. However, we have very little information about the artist.

Fannie (also Fanny) Elisabeth Waugh Davis (1871–1958) was born in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. She received a B.S. in 1891 and an M.A. in 1896 from Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University). She later married Kary Cadmus Davis. She worked mainly in pen and ink and pencil but did some watercolors. Her work was reproduced in L. H. Bailey’s Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1900) and various agricultural books published by J. B. Lippincott Company between 1913 and 1930. In Bailey’s Cyclopedia she signed her work "Fannie" and "Fanny."