Miller Canyon, a suburb of Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA
see http://www.askart.com/artist_bulletins/Robert_F_Sternitzky/11007262/Robert_F_Sternitzky.aspx#
United States of America
John A. Comstock: Butterflies of California (1927, facsimile reprint 1989, The original 1927 de luxe edition displaying a butterfly embossed on its brown leather cover, was advertised as "hand illuminated [by R. F. S.] and inscribed by the author", with 63 pl. depicting 17 larvae & pupae drawn in color by R. F. Sternitzky - cf. also http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1990s/1990/1990-44(3)206-Drummond.pdf) ;
Charles Henry Ingham accompanied R. F. S. on various research trips ;
zoological and topographical drawing and oil painting ; hand-colouring ;
Edan Hughes: Artists in California, 1786-1940, San Francisco City Directory ; 1920 United States Federal Census ; Social Security Death Index ;
North American lepidopterist and illustrator specialized on butterflies & moths who collected primarily in California and Arizona, active since at least 1927. He was born in California on August 25, 1891, a resident of San Francisco since at least c.1920 into the 1930s and he died in Sierra Vista, Arizona, in May 1980.
Some of the information in this entry was provided by Andy Mabbett.
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