Louis Agassiz Fuertes

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 - 1927) was an American ornithologist and illustrator.

Fuertes decided to concentrate on painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip to Washington, D.C. with the Cornell University Glee Club. He travelled to many countries in pursuit of birds, including Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and Ethiopia. And, in 1899, he accompanied E. H. Harriman on his famous exploration of the Alaska coastline. He lectured on ornithology at Cornell University from 1923, and the libraries there hold extensive collections of his artwork and personal papers.

External links

• [Cornell University]--has links to material on Harriman Expedition, many digitized images of art

 

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