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THBRunning Fox-Rig Eskimo Curlew
Lot 117
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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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Running Fox-Rig Eskimo Curlew
Massachusetts, c. 1880
14 in. long
An elegant reaching Eskimo curlew by this revered, yet unknown, Massachusetts master. Decoys by this carver are rare, suggesting that they were from a single rig. Some examples that have surfaced are marked for the "Fox" rig, giving this distinct group its moniker. Gigi Hopkins describes a closely related example in her "Massachusetts Masterpieces" exhibition book: "This stunning curlew is one of the most perfectly balanced and pleasing forms found in a shorebird decoy. It is masterfully garbed in lush, painterly daubs of earth tone colors." Another comparable resides in the Museum of American Folk Art collection and is currently on loan to the Center for American Decoys at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.
Original paint with light wear, a few small stacking marks, a crack in bill is reset, and some touch-up and fill to reset tail tip.
Provenance: Private Collection, Cape Cod
Literature: Gwladys Hopkins, "Massachusetts Masterpieces," Lincoln, MA, 2016, pp. 42-43, 98-99, related example illustrated. The Ward Museum, "Massachusetts Masters: Decoys, Shorebirds, and Decorative Carvings," Salisbury, MD, 2010, p. 35, similar decoy illustrated. Jeff Waingrow, "American Wildfowl Decoys," Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY, 1989, pp. 68-69, curlew illustrated and discussed.Please refer to the description; if you have additional questions, email colin@copleyart.com.Condition
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