1934-35 Federal Duck Stamp Print; Mallards

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1934-35 Federal Duck Stamp Print; Mallards

Artist Jay N. Darling (American, 1876 - 1962)

Platemaker Rene Lundgren

Printer Gordon Meaney

Date1944

Mediumphotoetching on paper

DimensionsSheet: 11 3/8 × 13 3/4 inches (28.9 × 34.9 cm)
Plate: 5 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches (14.6 × 21.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number91.1.1.A

ClassificationsPrints

Descriptionblack ink on white paper

Label TextDarling was born in Norwood, Michigan. He graduated from Beloit College and worked as a reporter. He moved to the Des Moines Register as a political cartoonist. He had a special interest in conservation. Darling was an avid hunter and did etchings of wildlife as a pastime. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed him Chief of the Biological Survey. In that position, he made the first Duck Stamp. Darling quickly sketched a pair of Mallards. Later, he re-drew the composition and used the new drawing to make an etching. Thus, his print does not replicate the Stamp design, but commemorates it.

ProvenancePurchased May 11, 1948 through (Abercrombie & Fitch, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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