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KANGAS ARTICLES & BOOKS.  Gene and Linda Kangas have written over 160 Articles and a dozen Books and Exhibition Catalogs during the past 35 years.    We are archiving complete articles including photographs and excerpted book and catalog texts with photographs to Creekside Art Gallery Blog.   Each can be downloaded and printed out for your convenience.  Please come back to look for more on a monthly basis!

Subjects include Waterfowl Decoys, American Historic and Contemporary Folk Art, International Folk Art, Biographies of Artists and Collectors, and Contemporary and Antique Woodturning including 19th and 20th century Peaseware.

Books & Catalogs Available for Purchase:  We are happy to personalize autographed books and catalogs; most are also available discounted in multiples.

Want your book, article or catalog written?  Contact us at  Creekside Art Gallery.

DR. JAMES McCLEERY "patted his feathered wooden friends goodbye" and sent them out into the world again. One by one, over thirty years, Jim had carefully selected each duck, goose and shorebird decoy he brought to his Pasadena, Texas home. Shorebirds were approximately one-half of Jim’s collection, with ducks and geese from all North American hunting regions making up the balance. His emphasis was on working decoys. They encompassed examples from the major factories as well as many prominent makers and excellent examples of unknown folk art. He loved each wooden bird nearly as much as he adored his live feathered and furred housemates. And, when his collecting was done, he determined that they go, one by one again, into new homes, those of his good friends, acquaintances, and others he had not met but who are kindred spirits. More »