Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE FRCP
Oliver Wolf Sacks
British 20th-21st century neurologist, naturalist, and author
(Cricklewood, London, UK, 7/9/1933 – 8/30/2015, New York City)
Neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author; he was the writer for The Island of Rota, which unites the work of the photographer Abelardo Morell, the designer Ted Muehling, and Oliver Sacks in a limited-edition publication that considers the unique natural history of a particular island in Micronesia. The most recent in a series of artist’s books produced by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Sacks' text is part of his The Island of the Colorblind.
Sacks lived and worked in the US.
1 objects
2010
cliche-verre in bound volume, botanical specimen on paper in archival box
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.236.a-.o
