Artist

Ross Allen, Sr.

born Fifield, WI 1915-died 1993
Media - portrait_image_113739.jpg - 89874
Courtesy Art Kimball.
Also known as
  • Rosewell Gabriel "Ross" Sr.
Born
Fifield, Wisconsin, United States
Active in
  • Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, United States
Biography

This fish decoy was probably carved by Ross Allen Sr. of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwa Nation in Wisconsin. He gave his decoys glass eyes, and sometimes tinted them with a red-orange varnish to attract larger fish (Kimball, The Fish Decoy, vol. I, 1986). Allen also taught his son, "Little Ross" Allen Jr., to carve decoys used for ice fishing during the cold winters in Wisconsin (Art and Brad Kimball, Fish Decoys of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibway, 1988).

Works by this artist (6 items)

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Charles Walter Stetson, Magnolia, 1895, oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1982.83.3
Magnolia
Artist
Date1895
oil on canvas mounted on fiberglass
On view
Charles Walter Stetson, After the Bath, 1910, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1982.83.1
After the Bath
Artist
Date1910
oil on canvas
On view
Charles Walter Stetson, Bathers by Moonlight, n.d., charcoal on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1983.65.2
Bathers by Moonlight
Artist
Daten.d.
charcoal on paper
Not on view
Charles Walter Stetson, Dancer Resting, 1882, pen and ink and watercolor on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1983.65.1
Dancer Resting
Artist
Date1882
pen and ink and watercolor on paper
Not on view