Golden Eye Female, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Surface, North Shore, MA wood and horsehair brush and Hannah Appleton)--and that he

and Hannah Appleton)--and that he is posing at Crane Beach in Ipswich

but what a great set to cheer up the kitchen

there are everything from paintings to prints to Staffordshire figurines depicting the subject in a range of manners--with of course the more naive approaches to the subject the ones I like best

which I find wonderfully direct

drawn in pencil by a David Bradfield

Golden Eye Female, Folk Art Working Decoy with Great Surface, North Shore, MA wood and horsehair brush and Hannah Appleton)--and that heI know this working duck decoy, and its male, green headed Golden Eye mate, came from an estate in Newburyport, MA, where, or near where, they were made. I'm no decoy expert and not dedicated to becoming one; I get excited about them for their sculptural qualities, the more primitive the better, and for their surfaces, made better by the years and work they've done. I find the form, and the craquelure to the surface on this one really gorgeous, and