Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Honors and Memorials

Honors and Memorials

In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America made Fuertes an Honorary Scout, a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was give to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; James L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper; Lincoln Ellsworth; George Bird Grinnell; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George Palmer Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Stewart Edward White; Orville Wright.

Fuertes influenced many later wildlife artists including George Miksch Sutton, whom he mentored, Roger Tory Peterson, and Jörg Kühn. The Wilson Ornithological Society established the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Award in 1947.

• Cardinal, from Citizen Bird (1897)

• Eastern Kingbird, from The Second Book of Birds (1901)

• Williamson's Sapsucker, from Birds of the Rockies (1902)

• Chestnut-backed Chickadee, from Harriman Alaska Series (1904)

• Pomarine Jaeger, from Harriman Alaska Series (1904)

• Yellow-throated Warbler, from Warblers of North America (1907)

• Great Horned Owl, from United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook (1908)

• Goshawk, from Birds of New York (1910-1914)

• Nightjars, from Birds of New York (1910-1914)

• Pileated Woodpecker, from Birds of New York (1910-1914)

• Magnolia Warbler, from The Warblers of North America (National Geographic, 1917)

• White-faced Ibis, from Game Birds of California (1918)

• Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930)

• Black-bellied Bustard, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930)

• African Fish Eagle, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930)