Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC – Winter Sale 2017 Catalog Order

This dynamic auction brings to the block more than 450 lots of American paintings, drawings, prints, folk art, bird decoys, and antique fly rods. Featuring works from the collections of Richard and Lynn Gove, Ernest and Carolyn Kramer, Blair Ledingham, Grant Nelson, and the estate of Joyce and Larry Huffman.

Selected artwork includes Trappers on the Lake by Frank E. Schoonover (1877-1972), four watercolors and over thirty etchings by Frank W. Benson (1862-1951), two major oil paintings by Edmund H. Osthaus (1858-1928), an important swan decoy by Charles Birch (1867-1956), and several exceptional carvings by the Ward Brothers, including a pair of life-size flying mallards ($40,000-50,000).