Peregrine Falcon Pursuing a Ring-necked Pheasant by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Walk towards the store from the Fuertes room and look up to the second floor to find our next stop.

Frederick Brewster commissioned artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes to create this painting for his private library in New Haven, Connecticut. It depicts a Peregrine Falcon, renowned for its incredible speed and hunting stoop, striking its prey mid-air. One of Fuertes’ expeditions included a stop at Fisher’s Island, New York, which he has chosen for the setting of this piece.

This artwork along with the Brewster Library (featured in the Fuertes Room) was donated by the Brewster family. Fredrick Brewster's will directed that following he and his wife's death that Edgerton, his 66-room sprawling Tudor-style mansion, be torn down and its 25 acre grounds made into a park for the city of New Haven.