Poster 2, Oscar Peterson Blue Gill Fish Decoy

Size of poster is 22" x 28" Oscar Peterson Blue Gill  Fish Decoy Carved painted wood with attached metal fins and painted eyes Length 8", Circa 1930 Born of Swedish parents in 1894, Oscar Peterson was an outdoorsman who spent his youth hunting and fishing in the lower Michigan Peninsula. He eventually settled in Cadillac, Michigan and was active as a wilderness guide in the area all his life. Peterson's involvement with decoys began as a child and continued his entire life. He spent nearly fifty years carving and painting with a fluency, industry and imagination unique to the art form. Peterson's distinctive paint style and wonderfully whimsical approach to decoy carving have distinguished him as the preeminent creator of American Ice Fishing decoys. Widely copied and counterfeited, his works, such as the one illustrated above, have been among the most valuable and highly sought-after of all American Folk Art objects. A man of powerful imagination and equally well-developed