William H. Browne

Bill Browne has been a lifelong resident of Lincoln, NE, and holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration and a J.D. in Law both from the University of Nebraska. While at the University he learned to carve from a classmate. He has continued to carve professionally from 1978 to the present. Entering in World and National Wildfowl Art Competitions since 1983 and winning many ‘First in Species’ in open class each year since . . . He has also won Four Pairs Championships, Two Traditional Decoy Championships, Six National Competitions, and One World Upland Game Championship. In 2001 he finished Third in World Decorative Floating Pairs and in 2016 he finished Second in Best of World Decorative Floating Wildfowl Pairs. He is an annual Contributor of carvings to Local and National fundraisers for Organizations concerned with Wildlife, the Environment, Health, and the Arts. His Carvings are in many private collections around the World and in the collection of the Louisiana Land and Exploration Co. In 2019 several of his scultpures were installed in this permanent collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), Kearmey, NE. In 2021 he was a Hall of Fame inductee for the Central Flyway Decoy Collections and Carvers Association. In 2012 he participated as an Instructor for the NEA and Ward Foundation’s ,’ Chesapeake Challenge’. His work has been shown at the American Museum of Wildlife Art, Redwing, MN. And locally at the Museum of Nebraska Art, in Kearney, NE. He has been a judge for five IWCA National Championships, and also judged often at shows in California and Ohio and Louisiana, and in the past at Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan and Kansas. He is a former Officer of the IWCA, and former President of the Central Flyway Decoy Collectors and Carvers Assoc.