1975-76 Federal Duck Stamp Print; Canvasback Decoy
Artist
James P. Fisher
(American, 1912 - 1990)
Printer
Triton Press, Inc.
Date1975
Mediumphotolithograph on paper
DimensionsSheet: 12 × 14 inches (30.5 × 35.6 cm)
Plate: 6 1/2 × 9 inches (16.5 × 22.9 cm)
Plate: 6 1/2 × 9 inches (16.5 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1975
Object number91.31.1.A
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionFour-color process; combination of offset lithography & collotype, seven colors; Arches 88- 100% rag paperLabel TextFisher created the only Federal Duck Stamp that features a decoy. The artist grew up in Delaware, drawing animals and birds in the Brandywine Valley. He studied at the Wilmington Academy of Art, where N.C. Wyeth was one of his teachers. Fisher developed a career as a commercial artist and painted the wildlife near his Pennsylvania home. To decorate his studio, he amassed a collection of old duck decoys. Another decoy collector loaned him the weathered canvasback decoy that Fisher painted for the Duck Stamp. Contest rules have been revised; now the principal subject must be living waterfowl.
ProvenancePurchased April 22, 1975 through (Sportsman's Edge, New York, New York) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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