High-Head Canvasback Drake, St. Clair Flats

Lot 280

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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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Jul 20, 2018

Set Reminder 2018-07-20 10:00:00 2018-07-20 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : The Sporting Sale 2018, Day 2 https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/copley/the-sporting-sale-2018-day-2-3302 On July 19, Copley Fine Art Auctions will lead off their annual Sporting Sale with 140 lots from the Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Collection of Important American Sporting Art and Decoys. On July 20 Copley will present an additional 425 lots of decoys, fish carvings, and sporting art. Copley Fine Art Auctions cinnie@copleyart.com

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Lot Description

High-Head Canvasback Drake
St. Clair Flats, c. 1920
16 1/2 in. long

A rigmate to this canvasback is illustrated on the inside covers and pages 7-8 of Clune Walsh and Lowell Jackson's book of Michigan decoys. They referred to these decoys as "snakey head...restless, nervous, and very wild." A collector's notation on the bottom of the decoy refers to the decoy as a "Long Neck Can," found on Harsens Island.
In old working repaint with gunning wear.

Provenance: Ronald S. Swanson Collection

Literature: Clune Walsh, Jr. and Lowell G. Jackson, "Waterfowl Decoys of Michigan and the St. Clair Region," Detroit, MI, 1983, pp. 6-7, pl. 17 and inside cover, rigmate illustrated.
Gene and Linda Kangas, "Great Lakes Decoy Interpretations," Concord, OH, 2011, p. 158, rigmates illustrated.
Ronald Swanson, “The Decoy as Folk Sculpture,” Cranbrook Academy of Art Exhibition Catalog, January 1987, p. 34, fig. 50, exact decoy illustrated.

Exhibited: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, “The Decoy as Folk Sculpture,” Cranbrook Academy of Art, January 27-February 22, 1987.

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