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THBDwight W. Huntington (1851-1938) Pointer and Quail
Lot 61
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
65 Sharp Street
Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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The sale will offer the opportunity to view and take home world-class paintings and fine bird carvings. Featuring selections from the collections of Alfred Ely, L. H. LaMonte, Grant Nelson, Ronald S. Swanson, Herb Wetanson, and a descendant of Chester F. Spear among others. Copley Fine Art Auctions cinnie@copleyart.com
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Dwight W. Huntington (1851-1938)
Pointer and Quail, 1902
signed and dated "D.W. Huntington 1902" lower right
watercolor, 15 by 21 1/2 in.
Dwight Williams Huntington, editor, lawyer, author, and longtime leader in the wild-game conservation movement, was born in 1851 and is remembered as the father of the “More Game” movement in America. According to his New York Times obituary, “A native of Cincinnati, Mr. Huntington wrote the first game breeding law to be enacted in this country. It was adopted by New York State in 1912 with the assistance of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, then chairman of the New York Forest, Fish and Game Committee.”
“Mr. Huntington was graduated from Yale University in 1873 and shortly thereafter accompanied the Marsh Expedition to the Yellowstone and the Northwest, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and Yale. Later he took up the practice of law in Cincinnati and became a member of the Ohio Legislature.”
In 1902 he wrote a letter to Theodore Roosevelt asking him to contribute to a volume on big-game hunting. Huntington authored Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1903, as well as Our Big Game: A Book for Sportsmen and Nature Lovers in 1904, and Our Wild Fowl and Waders in 1910, among other books.
His obituary continues, “In 1908 Mr. Huntington acquired an interest in The Amateur Sportsman…and was editor of it until 1912, when he founded and was elected first president of the Game Conservation Society.”
A 1945 remembrance of Huntington in Game Breeder & Sportsman, the publication of the Game Conservation Society, recalls Huntington emphasizing “the toll of the hunter…was a minor factor in the reduced numbers of many species compared to the many diverse effects of advancing civilization, the outstanding of which was the destruction of its natural habitat…”
The remembrance goes on, stating that the More Game Birds in America Foundation’s “greatest accomplishment was the conception and organization of Ducks Unlimited, Inc., the outstanding conservation organization of our time, which has played so splendid a part in the perpetuation and increase of North America’s wild ducks and geese…millions of ducks wing southward every fall that owe their very existence to Dwight Huntington and those who have followed his far sighted counsel to restore.”
Literature: “D. W. Huntington, Editor, Dies at 87,” The New York Times, November 27, 1938.
“Progress,” Game Breeder & Sportsman, April 1945, p. 42.Condition report requests can be made via email or by telephone (info@copleyart.com or 617.536.0030). Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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