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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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224 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL group), paintings by this artist which to bird lovers of hiter generations will ha^ e all the interest a panoramic painting by Audubon of, for example, a flight of wild pigeons would have for us to-day. p Because of the accuracy of his work, Fuertes is ever in demand as the illus- trator of technical and popular books and articles on ornithology. His con- tributions to publications of this nature amount to thousands of drawings; many of them ha\e been adequately produced in color and through their wide circula- tion, they have exercised an educational influence of the highest importance. Such for example are the illustrations in Eaton's great work on the Birds of New York, published by the State; those in the National Geographic Magazine, and the series appearing in Bird-Lore. In all of these illustrations everything is made subser\ient to the bird itself, which usually claims as large a share of the picture as it does of Fuertes' atten- tion. But in a series of twenty-four large panels in oils, done for the library of Mr. Frederick F. Brewster of New Haven, the birds, chiefly water-fowl and shore birds, take their proper place in a series of strongly handled landscapes which reveal Fuertes' art in a new aspect. With no sacrifice of his skill and insight as a painter of bird portraits, he has here placed his subjects in a setting which adds immeasurably to their beauty and to the appeal they make to the imagi- nation. These pictures, in the writer's opinion, are Fuertes' greatest achieve- ment and point the way for the develop- ment of his exceptional gifts.
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Property of F. F. Brewster Peregrine falcon with buiflehead. From painting by Fuertes.

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