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THBOgden M. Pleissner (1905-1983), Morning Flight
Lot 207
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
20 Winter Street
Pembroke, MA 02359
United States
Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)
Morning Flight, c. 1951
signed "Pleissner" lower left
watercolor, 17 1/2 by 12 in.
print published and copyrighted in 1951 by Hercules Powder Company
A well-executed vertical watercolor by the artist depicting two duck hunters in a blind with flight birds' wings set, headed towards the decoys.
Theodore Marvin, who commissioned this painting on behalf of the Hercules Powder Company, was born in 1899 in Billings, Montana. After assaying at the Tom Boy and Smuggler Union Mines near Telluride, Marvin attended the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.
Marvin had a successful thirty-year career at Hercules Powder Company, including twenty-two as Director of Advertising and Public Relations. His obituary notes, "His love of the arts was manifested in his interest in the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, and his retention of the great N.C. Wyeth and other famous artists [including Ogden Pleissner] to paint illustrations for the annual Hercules calendars."
In addition to many other industry organizations, Marvin served on the National Safety Council and in the American Mining Congress. He lived with his family in Wilmington, Delaware, and had a one-hundred-acre farm in Pennsylvania. He was an active participant in the Delaware chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and a member of the Wilmington Club and the Wilmington Country Club.
Provenance: Theodore Marvin Collection, Delaware
Estate of Marjorie Pierson Marvin, by descent
Robert S. Doochin Collection, acquired from Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Winter Sale 2022, lot 75Please email condition report requests to leah@copleyart.com.Condition
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