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Lot 506
Description:
Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965), "Four Pelicans: Chandeleurs", mid-1940s, pen and ink on paper, 10 3/4 in. x 8 1/4 in., attractively matted and framed; together with Pickard, Mary Anderson, preface, Pelicans: Walter Anderson, Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 2004. ?
- Provenance: Provenance: Acquired from the artist, to a private collector. Reproduced in plate two of Pelicans: Walter Anderson, preface by Mary Anderson Pickard, Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 2004.
- Literature: Reference: Pickard, Mary Anderson, preface, Pelicans: Walter Anderson, Cadmus Editions, San Francisco, 2004.
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Notes:
Note: 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. A drawing related to this and the subsequent lot, "Pelicans at North Key" is conserved by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (acc.1967.96.1).
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