R.T. (Skip) Wallen

United States of America (USA), 1942

BiographyR.T. “Skip” Wallen, born in Manitowoc and a 1960 graduate of Lincoln High School, has gone on to an international career as an artist. He began as a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after earning his degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin. He had spent his high school summers commercial fishing with his uncle in Alaska and his college summers on archaeological digs in the Aleutian Islands, so Alaska was familiar territory. His field sketches attracted the attention at headquarters, and he was brought in from the field to become the staff artist. Many of his drawings for the department’s Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series are still being published.

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