On Thursday, July 23, Copley Fine Art Auctions, the nation’s premier decoy and sporting art auction house, will host their annual Sporting Sale 2020. The sale, consisting of 294 lots, will offer the opportunity to take home world-class paintings and bird carvings by artists and carvers. The live auction will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 23.
Fine artists featured will include Ogden M. Pleissner, Aiden L. Ripley, Francis Lee Jaques, Lynn Bogue Hunt, George Browne, Richard LaBarre Goodwin, Eric Sloane, David A. Hagerbaumer, Owen Gromme, Lanford Monroe, Thomas Aquinas Daly, Chet Reneson , Ewoud de Groot, Luke Frazier, David Allen, Gordon Allen, and John Swan among others. Carvers will include A. Important decoy carvers include Melvin G. Lawrence, Charles F. Coffin, A. Elmer Crowell, The Ward Brothers, Ira Hudson, Lothrop Holmes, the Mason Factory, Joseph W. Lincoln, John Dawson, Obediah Verity, “Shang” Wheeler, Oliver Lawson, Keith Mueller, Cameron McIntyre, Steve Weaver, and Mark S. McNair, and others.
