Portrait of Louis Agassiz Fuertes<\/strong> for Bravo! Poems about Amazing Hispanics<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\nAs part of his legacy, the Fuertes’s parrot got it’s name from the legendary artist and ornithologist. The Boy Scouts of America<\/em>\u00a0also named him an honorary scout in 1927, a distinction given to those “American citizens\u00a0whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys”<\/em>. His groundbreaking work influenced many later wildlife artists and in 1947\u00a0the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Award<\/em> was established at the Wilson Ornithological Society<\/em>. In his time, he painted dozens of illustrations of mammals for National Geographic Magazine<\/em> which inspired the Society to hire their own artist. The paintings of this singular Hispanic American illustrator continue to inform, inspire and soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES was an exceptional\u00a0illustrator, artist and ornithologist who is regarded among the most accomplished American bird artists. Fuertes is credited for pioneering the painting of living birds in natural habitats. The paintings of this singular Hispanic American artist continue to inform, inspire and soar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[289,256,283,279,288,33,19,21,22,23,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6313,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rafaellopez.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}