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The American Folk Art Museum showed Orra White Hitchcock, a Massachusetts matron whose beguiling illustrations of mushrooms and mammoths were tied up with love for her husband, for God and for all earthly creation.

These distinctions are deftly depicted by Orra White Hitchcock, one of America’s earliest female scientific illustrators.

As a girl in Western Massachusetts, Orra White displayed precocious mathematic and artistic abilities and received the best schooling available for either boys or girls.

Though their careers were inextricable, Orra White Hitchcock was not an accessory to her husband’s work but rather his intellectual partner.

“The Art of Orra White Hitchcock” is on view at the American Folk Museum’s Lincoln Square location through October 14 and admission is free.