Artist

Maurice Beson

20th century
Active in
  • Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, United States
Biography

Maurice Beson hunts muskies (muskellunges, large food and game fish) on the Pokegama Lake in the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwa Nation in Wisconsin. He decorates his simple wooden decoys with crayons or paints, and blends the colors into the wood. Beson's grandfather Eli Beson was one of the area's fishing guides during the 1940s and 1950s (Art and Brad Kimball, Fish Decoys of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibway, 1988).

Works by this artist (24 items)

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Edward Kemeys, Buffalo and Wolves, 1876, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of J. Willis Johnson, 1984.141.2
Buffalo and Wolves
Artist
Date1876
bronze
On view
Edward Kemeys, Grizzly Bear at Bay, 1871-1885, painted plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1895.10.3
Grizzly Bear at Bay
Artist
Date1871-1885
painted plaster
On view
Edward Kemeys, Prairie Chicken, ca. 1870s, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charlotte J. Patterson and Herbert L. Patterson in memory of Elizabeth Z. Patterson, 2002.78
Prairie Chicken
Artist
Dateca. 1870s
bronze
Not on view
Edward Kemeys, Lion, ca. 1893, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of J. Willis Johnson, 1984.141.5
Lion
Artist
Dateca. 1893
bronze
Not on view