Guyette & Deeter, Inc. Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
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1. Extraordinary wall plaque, Oscar Peterson.
2. Important shorebirds by William Bowman.
3. Well carved pair of canvasbacks, Elmer Crowell.
4. The only known bufflehead drake by Arthur Cobb.
5. Important mallard drake, Shang Wheeler. Pictured on dust jacket cover of “Shang,” by Dixon Merkt.
D.C. North, Bruce Williams, Kroghie Andresen, Martin Bentley, Virginia & Jonathan Chua, Dr. John Dinan, John & Vicki Forbes,
Doily Fulcher, Dr. Lloyd Griffith, Dale & Gary Guyette, Gene & Linda Kangas, Robert & Sylvia Mangold, Otto Meyer, Phil Mott,
Steven Michaan, Carl Nemec, David Nichols, Kirby Roberts, and Governor James Thompson
An impressive 35” x 58.5” oil on canvas by Herman Simon. Depicts an important glimpse of waterfowling on the Chesapeake.
What many consider to be the most important waterfowling scene ever painted. Executed in 1883 by noted Philadelphia artist Herman Simon, the large oil on canvas of two wealthy sportsmen shooting from a double sink box in the Chesapeake Bay, is the only painting of its kind. Likely a commission piece, two gunners covered up in canvasbacks. The Canvasback was king of the Chesapeake at the turn of the century and sink box hunting was so successful that it was eventually outlawed. Never before have we seen a painting that captures this moment in time.
Simon’s work was included in numerous prominent exhibitions of the period. He exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1863 and, again, between 1876 and 1884. His paintings in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia of 1876 included “Dogs at Quail Shooting” and “Duck Shooting on the Chesapeake Bay”. He exhibited with the Philadelphia Society of Artists from 1879 to 1881 and again in 1884. He also showed at the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1887, his work was displayed at the opening of the new quarters of the Philadelphia Art Club alongside works by Albert Bierstadt and other celebrated artists of the period.
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