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THBExceptional Scoter Decoy, Lothrop Turner Holmes (1824-1899)
Lot 176
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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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Exceptional Scoter
Lothrop Turner Holmes (1824-1899)
Kingston, MA, c. 1860
20 1/2 in. long
This coot's body is constructed with canvas, fastened by copper tacks stretched over bent wooden slats. Gigi Hopkins, in "Massachusetts Masterpieces," credits Holmes with likely innovating the canvas decoy design: “The carver also made undeniably cute, framed, canvas-covered oldsquaw — and if he was making these between the ages of 25 to 30, it dates them to the 1850s, making it fairly clear that Holmes invented this lightweight form.” This scoter is an excellent example of Holmes' canvas decoy design and, with its superb condition, is perhaps his best of the species to ever come on the market. The underside is finished with Holmes' distinct copper and leather rigging.
Original paint with gunning wear and some touch-up.
Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts
Literature: Gwladys Hopkins, “Massachusetts Masterpieces: The Decoy as Art,” Lincoln, MA, 2016, p. 102.
Copley Fine Art Auctions, LCC, "The Sporting Sale 2011," Plymouth, MA, 2011, lots 518-519, related long-tailed ducks illustrated.Please email condition report requests to colin@copleyart.com. 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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