The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
FUERTES, Louis Agassiz, American
painter of birds: b. Ithaca, N. Y., 7 Feb. 1874.
He was graduated from Cornell University in
1897. His habitat bird groups in the American
Museum of Natural History are one of the
most attractive features of the institution. He
made 25 decorative panels for F. F. Brewster
of New Haven, Conn. He has illustrated
‘Birding on a Broncho’ (1896); ‘Citizen Bird’
(1897); ‘Song Birds and Water Fowl’ (1897);
‘Bird Craft’ (1897); ‘The Woodpeckers’
(1901); ‘Second Book of Birds’ (1901);
‘Birds of the Rockies’ (1902): ‘Handbook of
Birds of Western North America’ (1902);
‘Coues' Key to North American Birds’; the
plates for the ‘Report’ of the New York State
Game, Forest and Fish Commission (1903);
‘Upland Game Birds’ (1902), and the
companion volume, ‘Waterfowl’ (1903); New
York State Museum, Eaton's ‘Birds of New
York’ (1909-14); ‘Handbook of Birds of Eastern
North America’ (1912), and much illustration
for current magazines of ornithology,
governmental reports, and many paintings
privately owned, etc.