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Moby Dick (Extramural-Composition n. 3)

Salvatore ScarpittaWW-1958-164422

1958·Oil, resin, sand, and charcoal on cut and shaped canvas·Overall: 78 7/8 × 53 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (200.3 × 135.9 × 8.9 cm)

<p>Salvatore Scarpitta, <em>Moby Dick (Extramural-Composition n. 3)</em>, 1958. Oil, resin, sand, and charcoal on cut and shaped canvas, overall: 78 7/8 × 53 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (200.3 × 135.9 × 8.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Bequest of B.H. Friedman 2011.54. © Stella Alba Cartaino</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1958
Medium: Oil, resin, sand, and charcoal on cut and shaped canvas
Dimensions: Overall: 78 7/8 × 53 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (200.3 × 135.9 × 8.9 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Salvatore Scarpitta

Artist

Salvatore Scarpitta

Mixed Media

Salvatore Scarpitta was an American artist known for constructions that merged abstraction with found materials and industrial surfaces. Working primarily from the 1950s onward, he created relief compositions and three-dimensional objects that incorporated canvas, wood, metal, and tape in layered, gestural arrangements. His practice emerged from postwar abstraction but resisted pure formalism through an engagement with material tactility and weathered surfaces.

Rome, Italy and New York, NY, USA

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