"Male Duck Decoy" by Joan Beringer-Pripps || Ceramic | Hand Painted | Orig. JBP

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Male Duck Decoy" by Joan Beringer-Pripps || Ceramic | Hand Painted | Original
Joan Beringer Pripps was born on 12 June 1913, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin the daughter of  George and Johanna Wupper Beringer.
After studying at the Milwaukee Art Institute and Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Joan established herself as a successful portrait painter, but was also a doll maker, landscape and still life painter, potter, illustrator, and arts and crafts artist. Beringer began making dolls depicting historic or ethnic costumes when she was seventeen years old, and by 1939 had complete
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over 170 dolls. In October 1947 Beringer, conceived the idea of making doll figurines of prominent Wisconsin women as a way to celebrate the upcoming Wisconsin State Centennial. She made 70 of these dolls, some of which are now in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical Museum. During 1948, Beringer lectured on the prominent women of Wisconsin, using her dolls as an aid to illustrate her presentation. She married Norman Pripps, a heavy equipment operator, in 1949 and moved to his land in Springstead, Iron County, Wisconsin. Norman Pripps had a cabin on the land that they converted into "The Studio in the Woods", an art shop and tourist attraction. The Pripps built a small home next to the cabin and lived there for the next 46 years.
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I was a close relation to Joan and as well a professional artist.
~ Matt ~