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A CARVED AND PAINTED GREATER YELLOWLEGS
A CARVED AND PAINTED GREATER YELLOWLEGS

WILLIAM BOWMAN, LAWRENCE, LONG ISLAND, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY.

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A CARVED AND PAINTED GREATER YELLOWLEGS
William Bowman, Lawrence, Long Island, Last quarter 19th century.
Original paint with a dry patinated surface; minor roughness at wing tips. Structurally retaining its original bill. Hit by shot on one side.
14¼ in. high, 11 in. long

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This decoy exhibits carved wings and separated primaries, black glass eyes, all of which are characteristic of Bowman's work. For a related example, see the chapter on Massachusetts by Jackson Parker, in Joe Engers, ed. The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys (San Diego, 1990), pp. 56 and 59.