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John S Scheeler

John S. Scheeler (1925 - 1987) was active/lived in New Jersey.  John Scheeler is known for Sculpture, decoys.

John Scheeler, born in 1925, was from Mays Landing, New Jersey.  As a young boy he was not interested in carving as a profession but had made a few decoys.  Scheeler started carving professionally and competing late in his life, not entering his first contest until he was forty-three.  He became serious about carving after he visited the Ward Foundation's annual Carving and Art Exhibition.  He was interested in studying painting as a way to improve the realism of his early decoys as he started to consider making birds for competitions.  He took a correspondence course from the Famous Artists School but dropped out after his daughters became ill.  He entered his first contest in 1971, the U.S. Open held in Babylon, New York, and won best in show. T he next year he won Best in Show at the Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition, the Decorative Decoy Pairs competition.

Prior to 1973 Scheeler worked as an industrial painter and after winnin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2340 characters.]  Artist bio

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