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Subject: Duck Stamp Entry Wins Richest Prize
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 06:17:07 EST
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HEADLINE: Duck Stamp Entry Wins Richest Prize
Publication Date: Wednesday November 11, 1992
BYLINE: 

A former building contractor's acrylic painting of a pair of
canvasback ducks on Tuesday won the federal duck stamp contest,
considered the richest prize in wildlife art.

   "I feel like I'm two or three feet off the ground," said the artist,
Bruce Miller of Mound, Minn. "I'm just in a daze. It puts you into an
elite group of people. It's fabulous."

   Miller's painting will appear on next year's duck-hunting stamp, sales
of which go to preserve wetlands.

   First prize is a sheet of stamps signed by Interior Secretary Manuel
Lujan Jr. The real payoff comes in royalties from limited-edition prints
and in the instant fame. Past champions have earned up to $1 million on
the prints.


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