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Last Name Colbert
Given Name Margaret Matthew °
alt. Names M. M. C. ;
Marriage mammalian paleontologist Edwin (Ned) Harris Colbert (1905-2001)
Children five sons
Year born 1911 in Brooklyn, New York
Year died 2007
Place of death Flagstaff, Arizona ?
Father's occupation vertebrate paleontologist William Diller Matthew (1871-1930)
Relatives Kate Lee (1876-1955) (mother) ; George Frederick Matthew (grandfather), studied paleozoic New Brunswick petrified fauna and flora ;
Education California College of Arts
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for Edwin (Ned) Harris Colbert (1905-2001) (husband ); cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Harris_Colbert
Patronage American Museum Nat. Hist. in New York (scientific illustrator); Field Museum; National Science Foundation, New Mexico Mus.Nat.Hist.
Collaborators mostly with her husband, who travelled all seven continents and wrote more than 400 scientific articles and more than 20 books.
Techniques paleontological drawing, woodcut, engraving, museum mural painting, sculpture
Sample(s) www.strangescience.net/colbert.htm ; http://scrubmuncher.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/sivathere-and-kish-heads.jpg%3Fw%3D500
Archival sources www.vertpaleo.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=ColbertPrize&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1347
Published sources Ann Brimacombe Elliot: Charming the Bones. MMC (2000) ; R. Moody & E. Fuffetaut: Dinosaurs 2010: 123f. ;
other In 1969, M.C. retired to Flagstaff, Arizona, where E.C. held emeritus position at the Museum of Northern Arizona, where she painted large geol. murals.
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