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   Sutton
   George Miksch
   G. M. S. ; Sir George Miksch Sutton (since 1972) ;
   
   
   1898 in Bethany, Nebraska, USA
   1982
   
   Harry Trumbull Sutton, a minister-teacher
   pianist Lola Anna Miksch Sutton (mother) ; paternal grandfather George Miksch, a Moravian ;
   G. M. S.'s artistic work was inspired & tutored by ->Louis Agassiz Fuertes in 1916; Ph.D. thesis at Cornell University ;
   United States of America
   American Bird Biographies (1934, with 10 color plates and 10 wash drawings) ; Golden Plover & Other Birds (1939, with 7 coloured plates) ; Birds of Western Pennsylvania (1940, with 23 coloured plates and 60 pen & ink-drawings) ; Fifty common birds of Oklahoma & Southern Great Plains ; Guide to Birds of South America ; J. E. Holloway: Dict. ;
   academic posts at the University of Michigan and University of Oklahoma, Norman ; Knight Cross Order of the Falcon by the Icelandic government, 1972;
   
   zoological and ornithological pen-and-ink ; hand-colouring ;
   http://birds.fieldmuseum.org/media/art/george-miksch-sutton-gallery ;
   http://marinetomyrmecologist.blogspot.de/2015/02/veteran-scientist-20-george-miksch.html & www.suttoncenter.org/pages/the_life_of_george_miksch ;
   Mengel 1980: 62 ; Olin Sewall Petingill Jr.: In Memoriam G.M.S., in: The Auk 101 (1984): 146-52 ; G. M. S.: Bird Student. An Autobiography (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980) ; Jeroma A. Jackson ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 756, 2806 & 3159 ;
   American ornithologist & bird artist; cf. also links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Miksch_Sutton & http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v101n01/p0146-p0152.pdf ; G.M.S.- Artist, Scientist & Teacher, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2007
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