{{Short description|American scientific illustrator (1887–1973)}} {{Infobox person | name = Aime M. Awl | other_names = Aime Rebecca Motter Awl | birth_name = Aime Rebecca Motter | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|01|15}} | birth_place = Frederick, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|10|15|1887|01|15}} | death_place = Braddock Heights, Maryland, U.S. | burial_place = [[Mount Olivet Cemetery (Frederick, Maryland)|Mount Olivet Cemetery]], Frederick, Maryland, U.S. | alma_mater = [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]] | occupation = Scientific illustrator, scientific delineator | employer = {{plainlist| * U.S. Department of Agriculture, * [[National Museum of Natural History|United States National Museum]] }} | spouse = Francis Asbury Awl Jr. }} '''Aime Rebecca Motter Awl''' ([[Birth name|née]] '''Aime Rebecca Motter'''; {{date|1887|MDY}} – {{fdate|1973|MDY}}),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aime M. Awl |url=https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=14973 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Conchology.be |publisher=Guido T. Poppe & Philippe Poppe - Conchology, Inc. |language=en}}</ref> 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]],<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1920-12-05 |title=Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, December 05, 1920, Image 21 |publisher=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-12-05/ed-1/seq-21/ |access-date=2022-05-03 |issn=2331-9968}}</ref> and the U.S. National Museum (now the [[National Museum of Natural History]]).<ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=June 22, 1944 |title=Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, June 22, 1944, Image 24 |pages=B |work=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |publisher=Library of Congress. |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1944-06-22/ed-1/seq-24/ |access-date=2022-05-03 |issn=2331-9968}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HcNJAAAAYAAJ |title=Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc |date=1916 |volume=146 |pages=275 |language=en}}</ref> Awl is internationally recognized for her scientific illustration, especially of fish species.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Rosencrantz |first=Pat |date=1960-10-14 |title=Local Woman's Scientific Illustrations In Britannica |pages=1 |work=The News (Frederick, Maryland) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116198141/local-womans-scientific-illustrations/ |access-date=2023-01-10}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=October 14, 1960 |title=Scientific Illustrator |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/8953959/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The News (Frederick, MD) |page=1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Schultz |first=Leonard Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOs_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Aime+Awl+fish&pg=PR17 |title=Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands |date=1953 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |isbn=978-0-598-37226-0 |language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == Aime Rebecca Motter was born in [[Frederick, Maryland|Frederick]], [[Maryland]] on January 15, {{date|1887|MDY}},<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 15, 1973 |title=Aimee Motter Awl in the U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current |url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/ |website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Social Security Death Index Master File, [[Social Security Administration]] (SSA) |quote=Birth: 15 Jan 1887, Death: 15 Oct 1973}}</ref> to Effie Buhrman (née Market) and Judge John Columbus Motter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 2, 1958 |title=Fredrick Social Events |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/375109517/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Baltimore Sun |page=88 |language=en}}</ref> She graduated from the Girls' High School of Frederick. Awl married Major Francis Asbury Awl Jr.,<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 30, 1936 |title=F. A. Awl Fatally Stricken |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/41373607/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=Harrisburg Telegraph |page=8 |language=en}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":0" />
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]].<ref name=":1" /> She drew fish species, such as [[Daniops myersi|Daniops Myersi]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=United States National Museum.|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32683|title=Bulletin|last2=Museum|first2=United States National|date=1945|publisher=G.P.O.|location=Washington}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Hobart Muir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPwSAAAAIAAJ&q=Aime+Awl |title=An Annotated Checklist and Key to the Snakes of Mexico |last2=Taylor |first2=Edward Harrison |date=1945 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref>
Awl died on October 15, 1973, at the Vindobona Nursing Home in [[Braddock Heights, Maryland|Braddock Heights]], Maryland.
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