Richard A. Parks, Artist and Ornithologist

Richard A. Parks, Arch 43, of Atlanta, on Dec. 14. Naval officer, World War II. At the time of his death, he was the resident artist and last living charter member of the Georgia Ornithological Society. Parks was also a member of the Atlanta Bird Club, the American Ornithologist’s Union, the Wilson Ornithological Society, the National Audubon Society and the Atlanta Audubon Society, and he was a charter member of the Georgia Conservancy. His art collection—which includes more than two hundred paintings with field notes, studies and working sketches—is housed at the Hargrett Special Collections library at the University of Georgia.

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