Biography
Ellen Isham Schutt was born April 15, 1873 in Arlington, Virginia. Schutt was active from 1904-1914 as an illustrator with the United States Department of Agriculture.
According to Dillon Brown's The Department of Pomology, University of California, Davis, Miss E.I. Schutt-Blackburn was a pomological artist with the Department of Agriculture at the Berkeley campus from 1914-1915.
She passed away December 5, 1955 in Falls Church, Virginia.
From the guide to the Ellen I. Schutt Pomological Watercolors, 1911-1915, (University of California, Davis. General Library. Dept. of Special Collections.)