"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color--including early, unpublished, or obscure works along with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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