Touched twice by a master's brush
How I came to have not one but two surprise encounters with the handiwork of one of the 20th century’s most revered and infuential wildlife artists
Contributed by Pete Dunne
Published:
August 26, 2011
Contributing Editor Pete Dunne describes two instances when artwork from the famed wildlife painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes fell unexpectedly into his hands. The first occurred after an anonymous donor left a hand-bound set of proof plates for the book The Birds of New York at the Cape May Bird Observatory. The second was when Dunne visited a nondescript warehouse with a representative of Church & Dwight. Dunne discovered Fuertes' original paintings for bird cards that the company once distributed in boxes of its Arm & Hammer Baking Soda.
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