American botanical illustrator.
Alice Ruth Tangerini (born April 25, 1949) is an American botanical illustrator and curator. Hired by American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith, she began her career as a freelance illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in 1968. She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in 1972, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking, and right after this, she started to work full-time for the NMNH as a staff illustrator. Tangerini's illustrations have been featured in academic journals, floras, books, monographs, and museum exhibits. She favor