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group), paintings by this artist which to 
bird lovers of later generations will have 
all the interest a panoramic painting by 
Audubon of, for example, a flight of 
wild pigeons would have for us to-day. 
& 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 have 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. 
Peregrine falcon with bufflehead. 
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In all of these illustrations everything 
is made subservient 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 
From painting by Fuertes. 
