Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Singular Beauty of Birds

xi, 220 pp. Edited by Frederick George Marcham, with a foreword by Dean Amadon and an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. 60 color plates and numerous black-and-white reproductions of Fuertes's beautiful paintings and drawings of birds throughout. Fuertes was renowned for his life-like depictions, and many ornithologists consider his work superior to that of John James Audubon.