Birds of a Feather: Wildfowl Decoys At Shelburne Museum-Fast Shipping

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A book that celebrates one of the most breathtaking and comprehensive collections of wildfowl decoys in America. Bird decoys were used for hunting in NorthAmerica until the advent of hunting regulations in the early twentiethcentury, when decoys started to be prized and collected as masterpiecesof American folk art. This handsome book is the first examination of thehistoric and unparalleled decoy collection at Shelburne new photography of 250 of the museum’s most important andartistically carved decoys, it includes examples made by the mostrespected American carvers: Charles Osgood, Lem and Steve Ward, JohnBlair, Bill Bowman, Nathan Cobb, Jr., Lee Dudley, James Holly, Jr.,Nathan Horner, Albert Laing, Joseph Lincoln, A. Elmer Crowell, andCharles “Shang” Wheeler. The story of the collection begins with JoelBarber, the pioneer decoy enthusiast and New York architect, artist, andcarver, whose gift of 400 superior examples established the collectionin 1952. Several essays provide groundbreaking scholarship on theorigins, construction, and attribution of bird decoys, impartingcritical advancements to our modern understanding of this reveredtradition.