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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 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
One of the finest Valero decoys to have surfaced, this decoy displays Edna Perdew's (1882-1974) best combed-paint detail and original rigging. Valero loved carving decoys, but paid some of the Illinois River's finest decoy artists to paint his birds. In this sale we have three Valero mallard drakes, each by a different painter including Edna Perdew, Henry Holmes, and Jack Franks.
Provenance: Dr. E. C. Burhans Collection
Betsey Burhans Fowler Collection
Literature: Stephen O'Brien and Julie Carlson, "Masterworks of the Illinois River," Boston, MA, 2005, p. 135, decoys with Perdew paint illustrated.
Paul W. Parmalee and Forrest D. Loomis, "Decoys and Decoy Carvers of Illinois," DeKalb, IL, 1969, p. 247.
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