Creekside Art Gallery Blog

Sotheby’s is selling about twenty lots (#248-#268) of decoys on Saturday January 24th in their annual January Americana auction.  [Sotheby's 212.606.7414 Bid Department]

Included is a very rare, early (ca 1900), and dramatic high-neck Illinois Pintail Hen; a Gus Wilson preening Hen Eider; a very rare Pair of high-neck Walter Dawson Mallards (only one dozen known); a one-of-a-kind Phillippe Sirois flying Mallard drake (purchased directly from Sirois); a pair of full-bodied Chauncey Wheeler wall plaques; shorebirds by Verity, Lincoln, Mason, Crowell and Boyd and others;  a Gus Moak hollow Canvasback drake; a pair of Hector Whittington flying Mallards; and several Crowell miniatures including three exceptional one-third size Canada Geese with three different head gestures.  Three beautiful and folky sculptural bird carvings by Frank Finney are also offered. 

Veteran collector, author and decoy expert Ronald J. Gard is the man to contact regarding decoy consignments to Sotheby’s. [Contact 214.350.2229 or 214.912.2580]