Artist: Thomas H. Gelston
날짜: 1895
기술: Glass
Thomas Henry Gelston (1850-1924) grew up in a wealthy family in the Bay Ride neighborhood of Brooklyn, and learned to hunt in nearby Sheepshead Bay. Later in life he summered in Quogue where he carved decoys in both cork and wood. By the 1910s he was selling decoys through the elite sporting goods retailer, Abercrombie and Fitch of New York. In the decades after his early death in 1924 collectors have increasingly admired his work for how he shaped and carved the heads of his shorebird decoys. Examples such as this Whimbrel (also called a Hudsonian curlew) helped to make Gelston one of the most admired of Long Island
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