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AEDThe Surace Ward Canada Goose by The Ward Brothers
Lot 428
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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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The Surace Ward Canada Goose
The Ward Brothers
Lemuel T. (1896-1984) and Stephen (1895-1976)
Crisfield, MD, 1943
24 in. long
Frank Surace was one of the earliest decoy collectors from Long Island and one of the Long Island Decoy Collectors Association's founding members in 1971. A review of Surace's collection reveals that by no means did he limit himself to his home island. Indeed, he and his friends William Mackey and Milt Weiler traveled together with a briefcase full of cash on decoy-picking road trips.
This large, cedar-bodied goose displays a head which is slightly turned and finished with some of the greatest refinement seen in any of Steve's waterfowl decoys. The low neck seat sweeps into a grand cedar body with a high tail as variation of their humpback model. The decoy was finished with Lem's seemingly effortless blending and feathering. The underside of the carving is signed by both Lem and Steve and dated 1943.
Excellent original paint with moderate gunning wear, original fill to tight age lines in underside and back and minimal white wash to fill under tail. Rubs to tail and bill edges.
Provenance: Frank Surace Collection
Private Collection, acquired from the above in 1973
Matt Geis Collection
Literature: Ronald J. Gard and Brian J. McGrath, "The Ward Brothers' Decoys: A Collector's Guide," Plano, TX, 1989, pp. 112-113, related geese illustrated.Please refer to the description; if you have additional questions, email colin@copleyart.com.Condition
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