Aime M. Awl

Aime Rebecca Motter Awl, also known more commonly as Aime M. Awl, was an American scientific illustrator who worked for the United [States Department of Agriculture|U.S. Department of Agriculture], and the U.S. National Museum. Awl is internationally recognized for her scientific illustration, especially of fish species.

Biography

Aime Rebecca Motter was born in Frederick, Maryland on January 15,, to Effie Buhrman and Judge John Columbus Motter. She graduated from the Girls' High School of Frederick. Awl married Major Francis Asbury Awl, Jr., on May 22, 1922 in West Virginia and they had no children. Awl attended classes at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns [Hopkins School of Medicine], where she was a student of Max Brödel.
Awl worked as a scientific delineator for the Smithsonian Institution and her work appeared in a wide range of scientific publications and the Encyclopædia Britannica. She drew fish species, such as Daniops Myersi.
Awl died on October 15, 1973, at the Vindobona Nursing Home in Braddock Heights, Maryland.