Research Catalog

Title

George Miksch Sutton : artist, scientist, and teacher / Jerome A. Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Jerome A.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.

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Description

xvi, 239 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"George Miksch Sutton (1898-1982) is revered by bird lovers for his beautiful paintings. A Victorian gentleman, adventurer, and raconteur, he was trained in the sciences but felt equally at home in the arts. Despite the breadth of his talent and accomplishments and the respect of his peers, he was wary of future biographers and destroyed many of his personal papers." "Jerome Jackson, a friend and colleague of Sutton, draws on extant correspondence, interviews, and personal knowledge to offer a portrait of the artist that will surprise those who knew him only in his later years. Capturing a superb ornithologist who worked under the most inhospitable conditions, from the arctic to the tropics, Jackson shows us a person who guarded his privacy and struggled with uncertainty." "In this first biography of Sutton, Jackson depicts a Renaissance man whose life was, more than a search for birds, a quest for knowledge through science and art in the service of humanity. Tracing Sutton's roots through two generations, Jackson reveals what set him apart from other ornithologists and bird artists. Focusing on Sutton's formative years - how he acquired his love of birds at an early age and how that love guided his life - Jackson then relates Sutton's adventures in the Arctic, Mexico, Oklahoma, and elsewhere." "Jackson's account fills in details missing from Sutton's autobiography, Bird Student. Gracing the book are fifty reproductions of Sutton's art - twenty-eight in full color - including early, unpublished, or obscure works along with non-avian subjects."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Sutton, George Miksch, 1898-1982
• Ornithologists > United States > Biography
• Wildlife artists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-227) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Family ties -- Growing up -- Bethany, West Virginia -- Pittsburgh and Carnegie -- Eloise -- Pennsylvania State Ornithologist -- Southampton Island -- Cornell -- World War II -- The Michigan years -- Visiting Oklahoma -- An Oklahoma Institution -- Teacher, conservationist, philanthropist -- From illustration to fine art -- Ovenbird and golden Eagle -- Appendix : graduate students mentored by George Miksch Sutton

ISBN

9780806137452 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006027676

OCLC

• 71223058
• SCSB-11840526

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library