George Miksch Sutton: Artist, Scientist, and Teacher - Couverture rigide

Jackson, Jerome A.

 
9780806137452: George Miksch Sutton: Artist, Scientist, and Teacher
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0806137452 ISBN 13 : 9780806137452
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2007

Synopsis

The first biography of the distinguished ornithologist

George Miksch Sutton (1898-1982) is revered by bird lovers everywhere for his beautiful paintings. A Victorian gentleman, adventurer, and raconteur, he was trained in the sciences but felt equally at home in the arts.

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.

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 Gracing the book are fifty reproductions of Sutton's art--twenty-eight in full color--including early, unpublished, or obscure works along with non-avian subjects.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jerome A. Jackson, Professor of Biology and former Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Science at Florida Gulf Coast University, has been editor of The Wilson Bulletin, Journal of Field Ornithology, and other scholarly journals in addition to writing numerous articles and books. He worked closely with George Miksch Sutton through the Wilson Ornithological Society.

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0806137452
ISBN 13 
9780806137452
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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