Lot 180: Sperm Whale

A thirty-five-inch-long half-whale carving by master whale carver, Clark Voorhees. Signed on the back with the artist's stylized "CV" incised signature and stamped "C Voorhees".Voorhees was the son of Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871-1933), who was one of the founders of the Old Lyme, Connecticut Art Colony. When he first began carving, Voorhees enlisted the expertise of Wildfowler decoy founder, Ted Mulliken, in nearby Old Saybrook, Connecticut to aid in the carving of his whales. After establishing himself in his craft, he moved his carving business to its permanent home in Vermont.

c. 1950

Original paint with wear including areas of dried sap, a scrape to the edge of the pectoral fin, and both flukes of the tail have been reset.