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Lot 402
Description:
Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965), "Four Pelicans: Chandeleurs", pen and ink drawing on paper, c. mid-1940s, 11 in. x 8 in.
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Provenance:
- Provenance: Acquired from the artist, to a private collector. Reproduced in plate four of Pelicans: Walter Anderson, preface by Mary Anderson Pickard, Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 2004. Note: Walter Anderson¹s deep respect for and empathy with the indigenous nature of the Mississippi Gulf Coast permeates his work. Anderson particularly found refuge and solace among the pelicans that inhabited the remote coastal Chandeleur Islands. Mary Anderson Pickard, wrote of her father¹s fascination with the birds: Early in his marriage he left his bed one night to follow a flock of white Pelicans passing over his cottage in the moonlight. As they rested on a Marshy point, he waded out to join them. They accepted his presence. My Mother said that he returned, hours later, smelly but transported by the Experience. In 1948, Anderson spent three weeks marooned on North Key in the Chandeleur Islands, where he was immersed in the colony of pelicans that summered there. In his logbooks, which he entitled "Pelican dictionary of common terms," he noted the distinctive calls and cries of the birds. His sensitivity to and personal study of the pelicans led to beautifully detailed sepia drawings of the birds in their natural environment. Reference: Pickard, Mary Anderson, preface, Pelicans: Walter Anderson, Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 2004.
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