Whale

Arts of the Americas

1927

Carl Walters
American, 1883–1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Carl Walters
Title: Whale
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1927
Medium: Glazed earthenware
Inscriptions: Signed: [square in circle] Walters / 1927 / [artist's horse head device]” and “3168” (underside)
Dimensions: 19.7 × 42.6 × 19.7 cm (7 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Jane and Morris Weeden and Wesley M. Dixon Jr. endowment funds; Arts of the Americas Discretionary Fund
Reference Number: 2022.243

William I. Homer, A Catalogue of the Ceramic Sculpture of Carl Walters, 1883–1955, exh. cat. (Ogunquit, ME: Museum of Art of Ogunquit, 1958) [possibly cat. nos. 143 or 144, each listed as “present owner unknown”].
Tom Wolf, “Hervey White’s Maverick Colony and Its Artists,” in The Maverick: Hervey White’s Colony of the Arts (Woodstock, NY: Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 2006), 27.
Micheal A. Karczewski, “The Ceramic Sculptures of Carl Walters (1883–1955)” (MA Thesis, The
University of Georgia, 2008), 21, ill. 51-52, figs. 7, 8.
Tom Wolf, Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts, exh. cat. (New Paltz, NY: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State
University of New York at New Paltz, 2017), 53, 81, ill. pl. 9.

Woodstock, NY, Woodstock Artists Association, Carl Walters, 1883–1955 Memorial Exhibition, 1956.
Woodstock, NY, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, The Maverick: Hervey White’s Colony of the Arts, Aug. 5–Nov. 5, 2006, cat.
New Paltz, NY, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts, Feb. 4–May 21 2017, cat.

Melville E. Stone Jr., by 1989; given to the Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, MA, by 1989 [email from Sarah N. Chasse to Elizabeth McGoey, May 3, 2022, copy in curatorial object file]. With Sotheby’s, June 14, 1991, 20th-Century Decorative Arts, lot 322. With Sotheby’s, Mar. 21, 1992, 20th-Century Decorative Arts, lot 207. Collection of Vance N. Jordan, New York, by 2003 [email from Joel Rosenkranz to Elizabeth McGoey, Jan. 18, 2022, copy in curatorial object file]. Sold, Sotheby’s, June 16, 2004, Arcade Furniture and Decorative Works of Art: Including a Fine Collection of Fine Canes and Chess Sets from a Gentleman of Title, lot 352, to Joel Rosenkranz, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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