Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Selected Works

Selected Works

Fuertes' earliest commissions included 25 large decorative panels for F. F. Brewster of New Haven, Connecticut. This was followed by some murals at the Flamingo Hotel, of Miami, Florida and some paintings for the New York Zoological Society. He was much sought after later, illustrating books, plates for journals and magazine. Working with impressions from the field and from freshly collected specimens, Fuertes' works are considered some of the most accurate and natural depictions of birds. He had an ability to capture the bird in action and reproduce illustrations from a mental image. Apart from illustrations, he wrote some full length articles including one on falconry in the National Geographic and another on dogs. The cover of the journal Auk published by the American Ornithologists' Union was designed by Fuertes. Some of the books that he illustrated include:

• A-Birding on a Bronco, by Florence A. Merriam, 1896 (scanned)
• Citizen Bird by Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliot Coues. Macmillan Company, 1896 (1923 reprint)
• Song Birds and Water Fowl, by H E Parkhurst, 1897 (scanned)
• Bird Craft, by M. Osgood Wright, 1897 (1900 reprint)
• The Woodpeckers, by F H Eckstorm, 1901 (scanned)
• Second Book of Birds, by Olive Thorne Miller (pseudonym of Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller), 1901 (scanned)
• Birds of the Rockies, by Leander S. Keyser 1902 (scanned)
• Handbook of Birds of Western North America, by Frank Chapman, 1902 (1904 reprint)
• Upland Game Birds, by Edwyn Sandys and T S van Dyke, 1902 (scanned)
• Key to North American Birds by Elliot Coues, 1903 (scanned)
• Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, by Frank M. Chapman, 1904 (scanned)
• Birds of New York by Elon Howard Eaton, 1910 (scanned)
• Wild Animals of North America by Edward W. Nelson, 1918 9scanned)
• Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States by Edward Howe Forbush, 1925 (1927 edition)
• Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia by Wilfred Hudson Osgood. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1936
• The Bird Life of Texas by Harry Church Oberholser. University of Texas Press, 1974