Biografie von George Miksch SUTTON (1898-1982)

Birth place: Lincoln, NE

Addresses: Ann Arbor, MI; Norman, OK

Profession: Painter, illustrator, writer, lecturer, mus curator

Studied: Bethany College (B.S., 1919); Univ. Pittsburgh, 1923-25; Cornell Univ. (Ph.D., 1932); Bethany College (Sc.D., 1952); L.A. Fuertes.

Exhibited: Awards: John Burroughs Award, 1962; Knight Cross Order of the Falcon, Iceland, 1972.

Member: Cranbrook Inst. Science; Wilson Ornithology Soc. (past pres.); Arctic Inst. North Am.; Cooper Ornithology Soc.; Am. Geograph. Soc.; Am. Ornithologist Union (councilman).

Comments: Positions: emer. curator birds, Stovall Mus, 1968-; ornithologist, Oklahoma Biol. Surv. Publications: author/illustrator, Mexican Birds," 1951 & "Iceland Summer," 1961; author/illustrator," Oklahoma Birds" Univ. Oklahoma Press, 1967; author/illustrator, "High Arctic," 1971 & " At a Bend in a Mexican River," 1972, Eriksson. Teaching: George Lynn Cross emer. research professor zoology, Univ. Oklahoma.

Sources: WW73; WW47."