# Louis Agassiz Fuertes artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:49:57.357Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Ornithological illustration, Book illustration

## Portrait

![Louis Agassiz Fuertes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/LAFuertes.jpg)
Unknown photographer · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LAFuertes.jpg

## About Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927) was an American ornithological artist, illustrator, and ornithologist associated with naturalistic images of birds. His work belongs to the history of American natural-history illustration at the turn of the twentieth century, when accurate visual observation served both scientific publication and a wider public interest in wildlife. Fuertes is encountered especially through ornithological imagery and illustrations prepared for books about birds. Public biographical sources describe his bird pictures as influential within the field, although the collected source pack does not document a formal art movement or a complete chronology of commissions. Collectors may encounter his name in connection with illustration art, natural-history publishing, and bird subjects rather than a conventional modern-art school. Identifying the precise form of an object—such as its relationship to an original illustration project or a published book—is therefore an important part of researching a work attributed to Fuertes.

## Common works and media

Fuertes is most closely associated in the collected sources with ornithological illustrations, bird subjects, and images made for natural-history publishing. Works encountered in appraisal or auction contexts may consequently be cataloged under bird art, natural-history art, illustration art, or publication-related material. The source pack does not provide enough institutional or lot-level evidence to characterize particular paints, drawing materials, print processes, editions, or recurring series.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily input reports 169 auction-directory records associated with Louis Agassiz Fuertes, but that count alone does not establish value or market direction. An appraisal should first identify the work type and determine whether there is documented evidence connecting it to a bird book or illustration project. Relevant public auction records can then be compared by sale date, lot description, realized price, and contextual similarity when those details are available. The present source pack contains no fetched major-auction-house results and does not substantiate claims about preferred materials, edition premiums, scarcity, or price trends. Market conclusions should therefore remain tied to the individual object and to verified comparable lots rather than to the artist-name record count.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with indexed auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Each object still requires evidence appropriate to its attribution and work type.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1871480
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500028454
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/59198877/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50047914
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-agassiz-fuertes/