The Story of Lem Ward
Glenn Lawson
Barcode 9780887400285
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Release Date: 12/02/1997
Genre: Entertainment & The Arts
Sub-Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Label: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
American wildfowl art owes its foundation to Lem Ward. This wood carver and painter (1896-1984) overcame severe illness to produce some of the best-loved wildfowl art extant today. Lem and his brother Steve grew up along the marshes of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and subsisted as barbers and foragers. They created carved and painted ducks to please their independent selves-as works of art, while carvers around them were making decoys just good enough for hunting. Here Lem's life story is told by his daughter Ida who was beside Lem for almost the entire span of his artistic career.