Lloyd Tyler Diminutive Standing Green-winged Teal

Lloyd J. Tyler (1898-1970) Crisfield, MD, c. 1950 An alert, seven-and-one-half-inch-high, drake green-winged teal carving with carved wings on a driftwood base. A similar Tyler teal carving is illustrated on the back of the dust jacket of Henry Stanbury's biography of the carver. Original paint with light wear from handling and shrinkage to putty on legs.

Literature: Henry Stansbury, "Lloyd J. Tyler, Folk Artist, Decoy Maker," Burtonsville, MD, 1995 p. 47 and rear of dust jacket, similar carving illustrated.