![]() As a teenager, Haertel fashioned his own decoys for hunting along the river. As a boy, he studied their nesting grounds and wintering areas, and copied published illustrations to learn to draw them. An article on waterfowl in a 1915 issue of National Geographic sparked a life-long interest in ducks. The exhibit will be on view through February 20, 2005.Īlthough Haertel lived his entire life alongside the Fox River in East and West Dundee, Illinois, he is recognized well beyond the Fox River Valley region as a superb and versatile carver of gunning and decorative decoys. In addition, he judged many of the early decoy carving competitions and built up a highly respected collection of decoys carved by other men. Over the course of his long lifetime Haertel carved many species of waterfowl seen along Illinois flyways as well as shorebirds common to the Dakotas. ![]() Harold Haertel Decoy Carver Carved With Line and Grace: Decoys by Harold HaertelĬontinuing a series of exhibits devoted to individual Illinois decoy carvers, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences is featuring a display of duck decoys and related carvings by Harold Haertel (1904-1995).
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