percy-carawan-nc-1910-2005-goose
Lot 1079
Percy Carawan (NC, 1910-2005), Goose
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina, circa 1930, carved and painted wood with a high reaching head, ink stamped DECOY COLLECTION / DOILY E. FULCHER.

Length 27 in.

From the Collection of Doily Fulcher, King George, Virginia

Former collection of Kroghie Andresen.

Percy is known and celebrated for his graceful root head goose decoys as no two are alike. Percy involved nature in the process of creating his art. This example has a high reaching head with an attractive old patina.

Old gunning paint, multiple age checks in the body, chipping to tail, roughness to tip of the bill.