Louis Agassiz Fuertes
- Title:
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Midjo, Christian Martinius Susseg (1880-1973)
- Photographer:
- H.C. Howland
- Date:
- 1909-1947
- Location:
- Laboratory of Ornithology, corridor off atrium, Cornell University
- Country:
- Norway
- ID Number:
- artsdb_3028
- File Name:
- artsdb_3028.jpg
- Culture:
- Norwegian
- Work Type:
- oil paintings (visual works)
portraits - Materials/Techniques:
- oil painting
- Subject:
- Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- FUERTES, LOUIS AGASSIZ (Feb. 7, 1874-Aug. 22, 1927). Born in Ithaca, he attended Cornell and graduated in the class of 1897. Fuertes made many expeditions across the world collecting, studying and painting birds. He was killed on a grade crossing by a train in 1927. For a collection of his paintings and papers see the Cornell archival website: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Birds/
Christian Midjo was born in Trondheim, Norway in 1880. He studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 1906, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago. He joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1909. In 1937, he spent a semester at Deep Springs College in California. This was Midjo's first experience in a desert, and while he was there he produced numerous paintings of the stark environment. He continued to teach at Cornell, but from the 1930s on he spent as much time as possible in California. He retired there in 1947. Midjo eventually moved back to Norway where he died in 1973. The Vesterheim Norwegian museum has 15 of Midjo’s oil paintings, including 11 western landscapes. - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.