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Ward Brothers

Ward Brothers (20th Century) was active/lived in Maryland.  Ward Brothers is known for Collaborative sculpture-decoys.

The Ward Brothers - Steven (b. 1895 / d.1976) Lemuel (b.1897 / d.1984)

Along with their father, the brothers began working as barbers. The two started working as wooden wildfowl carvings, commonly know as decoy making, c.1920.  They started making the decoys at their barber shop but gradually moved their workshop to their home.  In the Depression years of the 1930s their was an increase for demand of their decoys as more people began to hunt to feed their families. At the end of the Depression there was demand for the Ward Brother's decoys with the growing interest in sport hunting and gunning clubs from hunters who could afford the best.

In the 1945 to 1950, the brothers replaced their classic style of cedar decoys to simpler decoys with a balsa body and pine or cedar head. By the 1950s good carving wood was scarce and factory-made decoys supplied the needs of most hunters, and customers. Steve started to carved a "collector grade" of full-sized decoys which Le   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1633 characters.]  Artist bio

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