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1. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

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2. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

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3. Novelty, Promotional - Novelty refrigerator magnet

   Promotional novelty refrigerator magnet with image of Les C. Kouba's "Down by the Dam" painting, showing the Little Crow statue, the Crow River Dam and geese in the sky. The magnet was sold as a fundraiser by the McLeod County Heritage Center.

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4. Poster - "Breaking Sod" poster print

   Les C. Kouba poster print "Breaking Sod". One of 12 paintings done for the Red Wing Shoe Company as part of the "America at Work" series. "Men of Action feel fit in ...Red Wing Shoes." Unframed. "Breaking Sod was a sign of the times, a sign of progress by a young America. As each furrow protested the bite of the walking plow, then rolled over in surrender...the ever-widening strip of black, rich land told the man and his team they were doin...

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5. Poster - "The Haying Crew" poster print

   Les C. Kouba poster print "The Haying Crew". One of 12 paintings done for the Red Wing Shoe Company as part of the "America at Work" series. "Men of Action feel fit in ...Red Wing Shoes." Unframed. "The Haying Crew...a legend in itself. Men with hands as tough as the pitchforks they handled. Men with browned faces and forearms. Men who would be in the fields when the last traces of dew still lingered. As stacks grew toward the sky, you coul...

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6. Print - "Antelope in Ranch Country"

   Framed press proof of the print "Antelope in Ranch Country" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. A group of antelope have come to drink at a old wooden windmill and water hole. A doe is enjoying the rancher’s salt lick, and the buck in the foreground is ever alert and watching over his band. One of six prints in the American Classic series. Signed at lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. This painting is Les Kouba’s tribute to...

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7. Print - "Big Bills' Barrel'n In"

   Framed print "Big 'Bills' Barrel'n In" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. A flock of thirteen Bluebill ducks are landing. Three are in the foreground. Considered Kouba's best and most sought after Bluebill print. Published in 1972 by the American Wildlife Art Galleries. 788/1000. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame with gold border; glass. Kouba: "Big Bills was inspired by a trip to Jimmy Robinson’s Duck Camp...

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8. Print - "Bills Arriving"

   Framed print "'Bills Arriving" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. Set near Marshall, Minnesota, this painting is where the diver ducks would channel through by Lake Arco and Lake Hendricks. "I had this mental picture of the way those ducks would come in. I’ll always remember the wind and the pretty good rollers." [The Legacy of Les C. Kouba] Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass.

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9. Print - "Black Labrador"

   Les Kouba print of a black lab carrying a pheasant through a harvested cornfield with a farmplace in the background. Framed in blond wood. Named "Black Labrador," this print was a commissioned painting for Dr. Paul Arnesen of Mankato of his dog "Tor". Les Kouba learned to know Dr. Arnesen through Les' work with the Johnson Reel Company. See Notes.

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10. Print - "Blues, Snows, Rain & Barley"

    Framed print "Blues, Snow, Rain and Barley" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. A flock of Blue & Snow Geese is landing to join thirteen others in a barley field studded with puddles from rain. A grain elevator, CN boxcar and farmstead is in the background. The elevator sign reads "Prairie Co-op Elevator Association, Pool No. 13, Service at Cost." 1061/2500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The snow goo...

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11. Print - "Bye Bye Blackbird"

    Framed print "Bye Bye Blackbird" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. A large Muskie is about to eat a red winged blackbird. 204/2000. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. Kouba once witnessed a Muskie actually catching a black bird off the rushes at the north end of Leech Lake. When black birds migrate in the fall of the year they often feed on the wild rice grown in the shallows of Minnesota's northern lakes...

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12. Print - "By the Country Store"

    Framed print "By The Country Store" by Minnesota wildlife artist Les C. Kouba. He painted himself in three stages of his life: a man sitting in front of the store wood carving; a boy sitting on a box watching a man painting a Coca-Cola sign on the side of the store. Thirteen geese are flying over the store. A vintage automobile is parked by a gas pump and a Coca-Cola truck is parked on the left side of the store. A sign for Clabber Girl is in the...

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13. Print - "Canoe Country"

    Framed print "Canoe Country" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. Watercolor art print of a lone man in his canoe in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Northern Minnesota. Published in 1978. 826/1500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame painted gold; glass. Kouba: "This painting was inspired by a photograph taken by author Calvin Rustrom. He gave it to me when I was illustrating one of his many outdoors books. I w...

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14. Print - "Cans in Bush Country"

    Framed print "Cans in Bush Country" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. Thirteen canvasback ducks find water in the snowy north woods. 844/1500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass.

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15. Print - "Cans in Lifting Fog"

    Framed print "Cans in Lifting Fog" painted by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. In this painting Kouba painted a flock of canvasback ducks gathering in a quiet bay in the morning. Five of thirteen ducks are in the foreground. The fog is beginning to break. The morning sun is burning through the lifting fog. "Cans In Lifting Fog" was published in 1983. 104/2500. Signed by Les Kouba in lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The canvasback duck ...

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16. Print - "Caribou Primeval

    Framed print "Caribou Primeval" by Les C. Kouba. This painting is part of the Cathedral of the Pines Collection for Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church of Minneapolis. The picture shows a Native American Indian paddling a birch bark canoe on Lake Caribou at "Cathedral of the Pines" near Lutsen, Minnesota. A sheet on the back describes painter Les Kouba, his works and this special collection of of wildlife art. Light colored frame, light gray mat; gla...

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17. Print - "Christmas 1986"

    Framed print and commemorative plate "Christmas 1986" by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba. The image depicts a serene Christmas Eve night. The Christmas Star shines brightly over a rural home nestled in the pines. The lighted Christmas Tree in the window casts its warm glow on the fresh fallen snow outside and illuminates the moose antlers hung directly above the window. Icicles dangle from the roof and smoke curls from the chimney as a maje...

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18. Print - Coots Unlimited stamp & print

    Framed 1988-2088 Coots Unlimited $5 mock Stamp and Print designed by wildlife artist Les Kouba. Pictures a pair of coots with eleven others in the distance on water. Print is signed by Les C. Kouba at lower right. Black wood frame; glass. One of "Kouba's Fun Stamps". The stamp has "Common Coot (Mud Hen, Rice Hen)" written on one side.

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19. Print - Cornfed Ringnecks print, Les C. Kouba

    Unframed Les Kouba print "Cornfed Ringnecks". Artist signature at lower right. A pair of Chinese Ringneck pheasants are looking for a meal in a snow-covered cornfield. A limited edition upland game bird art print by a nationally known artist who believed in placing his sujects in their natural habitat and stroe to create a feeling of season, place and circumstance.

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20. Print - Corn for Lunch, Les Kouba print

    Unframed Les Kouba print "Corn for Lunch". Artist signature at lower right. Limited edition of 2500. A lone raccoon is getting a free lunch from a farmer's cornfield by snacking on an ear of corn. Mr. Kouba, a nationally known artist, believed in placing his subjects in their natural habitat to create a feeliing of season, place and circumstance.

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