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Esther Heins (1908-2007) was an American artist and scientific illustrator and author. She is known for her botanical illustrations.

Heins was born on November 10, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Massachusetts School of Art. Heins worked as a commercial art, eventually focusing on botanical illustration.

Heins created a series of water color paintings of plants in the Arnold Arboretum. Many of those illustrations were collected into the book Flowering Trees and Shrubs.

Heins died on December 3, 2007, at the age of 99. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

References

1. ^ "Esther Heins Obituary (2008) - Marblehead, MA". The Boston Globe. 18 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 23 September 2023 – via Legacy.com.
2. "Esther Heins - Biography". askART.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
3. Leet, Judith (1987). Flowering Trees and Shrubs: The Botanical Paintings of Esther Heins. Text consulting by Peter Del Tredici and forward by Peter Shaw Ashton. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810909403. OCLC 14099295. OL 5269978W. Retrieved 5 June 2024 – via Internet Archive.
4. "Artist/Maker: Esther Heins". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Archived from the original on 6 June 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

• 1908 births
• 2007 deaths
• People from Brooklyn
• American women illustrators
• 20th-century American women artists
• American botanical illustrators