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Exceedingly rare and important rigmate pair of hollow carved pintails
Auction: 04/27/2017 - 4/28/2017
Lot: 118
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Ivar Gustav Fernlund AUCTION RECORDS
1881 Sweden - 1933. Known for: Life-like duck decoy carving, pattern making for decoy forms.
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Ivar Gustav Fernlund (1881 – 1933). An important Canadian duck decoy carver, Ivar Gustav Fernlund was born in Sweden, moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885, and was transferred... Read full biography
Ivar Gustav Fernlund (1881 – 1933). An important Canadian duck decoy carver, Ivar Gustav Fernlund was born in Sweden, moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885, and was transferred to Hamilton, Ontario by Westinghouse, the company he worked for, in 1906. He moved to Burlington... Read full biography
Ivar Gustav Fernlund (1881 – 1933). An important Canadian duck decoy carver, Ivar Gustav Fernlund was born in Sweden, moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885, and was transferred to Hamilton, Ontario by Westinghouse, the company he worked for, in 1906. He moved to Burlington Beach (about 8 miles northeast of Hamilton) in 1914. Fernlund’s life-like decoys frequently achieve auction prices in the thousands of dollars and one pair of hollow carved pintails sold for over... Read full biography
Ivar Gustav Fernlund (1881 – 1933). An important Canadian duck decoy carver, Ivar Gustav Fernlund was born in Sweden, moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885, and was transferred to Hamilton, Ontario by Westinghouse, the company he worked for, in 1906. He moved to Burlington Beach (about 8 miles northeast of Hamilton) in 1914. Fernlund’s life-like decoys frequently achieve auction prices in the thousands of dollars and one pair of hollow carved pintails sold for over $170,000.00 USF (see askART). Two of his carvings are in the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of History [National Capital Region]. His medium was life-like wood duck decoys decorated with oil paint. His subjects included bluebills, canvasbacks,... Read full biography
Ivar Gustav Fernlund (1881 – 1933). An important Canadian duck decoy carver, Ivar Gustav Fernlund was born in Sweden, moved with his parents to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1885, and was transferred to Hamilton, Ontario by Westinghouse, the company he worked for, in 1906. He moved to Burlington Beach (about 8 miles northeast of Hamilton) in 1914. Fernlund’s life-like decoys frequently achieve auction prices in the thousands of dollars and one pair of hollow carved pintails sold for over $170,000.00 USF (see askART). Two of his carvings are in the permanent collection of the Canadian Museum of History [National Capital Region]. His medium was life-like wood duck decoys decorated with oil paint. His subjects included bluebills, canvasbacks, redheads, marsh ducks, mallards, pintails and black ducks. His style was Realism*. Fernlund was a self-taught artist who began carvi... Read full biography
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