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Adele Earnest
Adele Earnest (1901-1993) was an American folk art collector and historian, noted as an authority on wildfowl decoys. Early life Earnest was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and attended Wellesley College. As a young woman, newly married, she lived for a time in Pennsylvania German country, an experience to which she ascribed her interest in folk art. Art collection She worked for a time as Eva LaGalliene's stage manager before moving to Stony Point, New York, where with Cordelia Hamilton, she opened the Stony Point Folk Art Gallery in 1948. The gallery soon became known for its displays of folk sculpture, of which decoys were a particular highlight. Growing from this interest, Earnest in 1965 published ''The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carving'', among the first books to discuss decoys in a scholarly context. Alongside Hamilton, Marian Willard, Burt Martinson, Albert Bullowa, and Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr., she was a founding trustee of the American Folk Art Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck Decoy (model)
A duck decoy (or decoy duck) is a man-made object resembling a real duck. Duck decoys are sometimes used in waterfowl hunting to attract real ducks. Duck decoys were historically carved from wood, often Atlantic white cedar wood on the east coast of the US from Maine to South Carolina, or cork. Modern ones may also be made of canvas and plastic. They are usually painted, often elaborately and very accurately, to resemble various kinds of waterfowl. History Decoy ducks have been used in traditional hunting by Indigenous Australian peoples of the Murray River in South Australia. The current world record price for an antique duck decoy at auction is a red-breasted merganser hen by Lothrop Holmes for $856,000. Guyette & Deeter and Christie's New York. January 2007. The first million dollar price was achieved when two decoys (Canada goose and a preening pintail drake) by A. Elmer Crowell of East Harwich, MA were said to have sold for US$1.13 million each in a private sale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
