Barbara Boyland Painting a Decoy

Photograph

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Pejepscot History Center

Name/Title

Barbara Boyland Painting a Decoy

Entry/Object ID

2003.546.3.955

Description

A black and white photograph of Barbara Boyland of Bath, painting a large Canada Goose decoy. She is sat at a table in her kitchen holding the paintbrush to the decoy's head. The photo was published in The Times Record in Brunswick, Maine, on 02/10/1986.

Collection

Times Record

Lexicon

Search Terms

Times Record

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Labor of Love: Creating Art and Community

Notes

Decoys, specifically duck decoys, were originally used as a hunting tool by Indigenous Americans. Colonists in the 18th and 19th centuries picked up the tactic. Now decoys are not used for hunting so much as a folk art pastime. Barbara Boyland (1935-) of Bath, ME, is seen painting a large Canada Goose decoy in this photo. Boyland continues to paint decoys in remembrance of her late husband and his love of hunting, staying connected to him through the process despite his passing.