Abyssinian Expedition Watercolors – Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition

Louis Agassiz Fuertes’ watercolor sketches from his Abyssinian expedition in 1926 document the beautiful and foreign birds and primates that he encountered while in modern-day Ethiopia. The expedition was funded by the Field Museum, where the original watercolors are housed today in the museum’s Mary W. Runnells Rare Book Room. The Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition of Fuertes’s Abyssinian Expedition Watercolors makes these unique paintings available outside the rare book repository in a limited edition print run of 500. As a master of form, color, and tonality, Fuertes captures the incredibly veristic quality of his subjects on the page.