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 (2 items)

Susan Brandeis, Aerial Dreamscape I, 1980, embroidered cotton broadcloth and cotton thread, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Paul and Carole Garrison, 2001.88.1, © 1980, Susan Brandeis
Aerial Dreamscape I
Artist
Date1980
embroidered cotton broadcloth and cotton thread
Not on view
Susan Brandeis, Aerial Dreamscape II, 1980, embroidered cotton broadcloth and cotton thread, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Paul and Carole Garrison, 2001.88.2, © 1980, Susan Brandeis
Aerial Dreamscape II
Artist
Date1980
embroidered cotton broadcloth and cotton thread
Not on view