Mary McMurtrie DA SBA[note 1] (26 June 1902 – 1 November 2003) was a Scottish botanical artist and horticulturalist.
In her book Where the Apple Ripens, Jessie Kesson recalled her childhood memory of the exotic Himalayan cowslips in the McMurtries' manse garden at the time when they befriended the girl from the nearby orphanage.
[2] She wrote the description of Skene parish in the Third Statistical Account of Scotland and published articles of local interest in the Scots Magazine and the Deeside Field.
McMurtrie exhibited her paintings in local art galleries and eventually became internationally recognised as one of Britain's leading botanical painters.
[2][6][11] Mary McMurtrie completed the illustrations for Old Cottage Pinks shortly before her death on 1 November 2003 at the age of 101.
The UK charity for the elderly Counsel and Care had recognised her as the oldest active artist in Britain.