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Treehouse
By Tony Caramanico
Located in Fairfield, CT
to jumping off a ship’s mast in a gale and landing on Moby Dick for a few seconds of oneness with the
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2010s Mixed Media

Materials

Photographic Film

The Whale as a Dish from Waves II
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
works in the Waves series are based on chapters from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In this chapter, the
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1980s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Norman Parkinson Filmmaker John Huston at Elstree Studios, 1955
By Norman Parkinson
Located in New York, NY
film 'Moby Dick' at Elstree Studios, 1955. Filmmaker John Huston at Elstree Studios, 1955 Silver
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Head Tide, Good Housekeeping, Story Illustration
By Mead Schaeffer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Moby Dick, The Count of Monte Christo, and King Arthur and His Knights. The featured lot, a masterpiece
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Frank Stella
Located in Fairlawn, OH
composition is similar to the background edges of several large prints Stella made as part of the Moby Dick
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Brotherhood of Thieves, Nantucket by David Yarrow - Contemporary Photography
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
integral to Herman Melville’s classic novel - Moby Dick I imagined that The Brotherhood of Thieves would
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jaws by Peter Benchley, First Edition with Dust Jacket, 1974
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
the Great American fish felon, Moby Dick. But the shark is so menacingly adequate an embodiment of
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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Books

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Paper

Anton Otto Fischer Pen and Ink Book Illustration Drawing
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in New Windsor, NY
York City in 1903. Among his illustrated books were "Moby Dick", "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Vintage 1930s American Nautical Objects

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Paper

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Second Ed., Tipped-in Signature, 1850
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville’s Moby Dick” (Bradley). It is one of only a handful of novels of the era still familiar to students
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Antique 1850s American Books

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Paper

Frank Stella Hand Signed 93/100 Whitney Museum Lithograph Abstract Expressionist
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
-1990s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Frank Stella - NY State Columbus Centenary, Lithograph, Hand Signed, Ed. of 100
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s paintings gave
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Ink, Lithograph, Offset

Frank Stella, Line Up, from Jasper s Dilemma, signed/n, geometric abstraction
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s paintings gave
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Frank Stella, unique paper collage signed and inscribed to museum curator Framed
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s paintings gave
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

1967 Castelli Gallery Exhibition Announcement, uniquely signed by Frank Stella
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Watercolor Still life Painting Vegetables Claus Hoien Greengrocer Kitchen Series
Located in Surfside, FL
lifetime of painting sailing vessels, fish, whalers, and Moby-Dick, among other subjects. The idea of a
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20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Monograph with 3-D sculptural pop-up (Hand signed and numbered by Red Grooms)
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
sculpto-pictoramas appear in full color and some in gatefolds, such as Moby Dick Meets the NYPL, Tennessee
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Early 2000s Pop Art More Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset, Board

Frank Stella -Attica Defense Fund historic LtEd Geometric abstraction lithograph
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Hail and Farewell
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Missouri, MO
painters as well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Frank Stella, Whitney Museum exhibited graphic work with Label, Signed/N, Framed
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph, Screen

Frank Stella, Luis Miguel Dominguin, print from Aluminum Series, Signed/N Framed
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

River Bure The Norfolk Broads East Anglia 1950s Framed Landscape Oil Painting
By Rowland Hilder
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
several other books, including Moby Dick. In 1929 he was commissioner by Shell to illustrate Then and Now
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Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Diver — 1930s American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
. His striking illustrations for two editions of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick—simultaneously precise and
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1930s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Mountain Climber — American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick—simultaneously precise and abstract images that drew on his architect’s eye
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1930s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Woodcut

The Bather — Iconic American Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick—simultaneously precise and abstract images that drew on his architect’s eye
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1930s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Sea And Sky — 1930s Modernism
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
preeminent graphic artists of his time. His striking illustrations for two editions of Herman Melville’s Moby
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1930s American Modern Nude Prints

Materials

Woodcut

First Of Winter’s Snowfall On A Kentish Farm Framed Kent Landscape Painting
By Rowland Hilder
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
several other books, including Moby Dick. In 1929 he was commissioner by Shell to illustrate Then and Now
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Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

1 vol. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale. First Trade Edition, Limited Ed.
Located in New York, NY
1 vol. Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale. First Trade Edition, Limited Edition. Illustrated
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20th Century American Books

Materials

Leather

Moby Dick
By Frank Stella
Located in Seoul, SO
That changing, shifting quality is apparent in Stella's own Moby Dick series, a set of painting
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Early 2000s Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint

Moby Dick (The White Whale)
By Alex Weinstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Moby Dick (The White Whale), 2006-08 Resin and acrylic Installed : 44 1/4 x 110 1/4 inches WE208
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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Resin, Acrylic

"Moby Dick, " Duco lacquer on masonite by Robert Hansen
By Robert Hansen
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Duco automotive lacquer on masonite entitled "Moby Dick," by Robert Hansen
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Vintage 1960s American Paintings

Moby Dick
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Made of spun steel, which is an ancient sculpting technique developed by the Romans, the whale and ship are created using reclaimed materials.
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Moby Dick
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Category

1980s Prints and Multiples

Moby Dick, Vintage Polish Film Poster by Wiktor Gorka, 1961
By Wiktor Gorka
Located in London, GB
This is an incredibly special rare film poster for ‘Moby Dick’, starring Gregory Peck and Orson
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Vintage 1960s Polish Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Paper

Wuthering Heights/ Moby Dick
By Emma Tapley
Located in New York, NY
Materials

Oil, Panel

Extracts - Moby Dick Deckle Edges Series
By Frank Stella
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Original Frank Stella Lithograph with Etching, Aquatint, Relief and Screenprint in colors on Rives BFK paper. From the signed, dated, and numbered edition of 40.
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20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints

Materials

Aquatint, Color, Etching, Intaglio, Lithograph, Paper, Screen

Oil On Canvas Maritime Seascape
Located in Woodbury, CT
An oil on canvas whaling scene by Robert Jordan featuring a scene from Melville's 'Moby Dick' with
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20th Century American Paintings

All Astir, Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 48"
By Nuala Clarke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
The title of this soothing seascape is taken from a chapter of Moby Dick. The surface is smooth
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Generations
Located in Provincetown, MA
his open, ongoing passion, whether it be expressed around storytelling - a huge, raging Moby Dick
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Northern Night
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Wellesley, MA
well as a popular illustrator and printmaker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most
Category

1930s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

Fly Fishing
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Edgartown, MA
career included illustrating classic novels such as Moby-Dick, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mountain Climber
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Wellesley, MA
well as a popular illustrator and print-maker. His 1930 illustrations for Moby Dick are among his most
Category

1930s American Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Engraving

Decorum (for Henry James), abstract acrylic painting on canvas
By Ron Shuebrook
Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
“monkeyrope” that was the line that attached a whaler to his vessel– as in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, one
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Blandford Monkeyrope, abstract acrylic painting on canvas
By Ron Shuebrook
Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
“monkeyrope” that was the line that attached a whaler to his vessel– as in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, one
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Atmosphere and Monkeyrope, abstract acrylic painting on canvas
By Ron Shuebrook
Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
“monkeyrope” that was the line that attached a whaler to his vessel– as in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”, one
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Kind River
By Larry Hill Art
Located in Fresno, CA
Moby Dick, a whale whose whiteness could strike panic in the human soul. If you do, I believe you will
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Monkeyrope (For David), abstract black and white oil painting on canvas
By Ron Shuebrook
Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
“Moby Dick”, one of Shuebrook’s favourite books. Blandford, Nova Scotia, where Shuebrook summers, was
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Moby Dick from The Waves, 1989
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Frank Stella Moby Dick, from The Waves Series, 1989, named after a chapter from the Herman Melville
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Linocut, Screen

Jonah Historically Regarded, from Moby Dick Engravings
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Frank Stella Jonah Historically Regarded from Moby Dick Engravings, 1991 is from a series of works
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1990s Abstract Prints

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Fossil Whale, from Moby Dick Engravings
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Part of Frank Stella’s Moby Dick series, this color etching aquatint features a wide array of
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Moby Dick and Captain Ahab Whirligig by Stephen Ketchum
By Stephen Ketchum
Located in Nantucket, MA
Moby Dick and Captain Ahab Whirligig carved and painted on Nantucket by Stephen Ketchum, c.1981
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Vintage 1980s American Primitive Weathervanes

Materials

Metal

Gerard van den Berg "Moby Dick" Leather Sofa for Label Vandenberg
By Gerard Van Den Berg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Comfortable and inviting, "Moby Dick" buck leather two-seater sofa, designed by highly respected
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2010s Dutch Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather

"Moby Dick, " WPA-Influenced Sculpture by John Martin, 1939
By John Arthur Martin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Joyful, whimsical and brilliantly carved, this sculpture of Moby Dick illustrates the Depression
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Vintage 1930s American Sculptures

Materials

Walnut

Gerard van den Berg "Moby Dick" Leather Sofa for Label Vandenberg
By Gerard Van Den Berg, Label
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderfully comfortable and inviting "Moby Dick" soft form grey leather 3-seater sofa, designed
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1990s Dutch Modern Sofas

Materials

Metal

Moby Dick Chaise Longue by Alberto Rosselli for Saporiti, Italy
By Alberto Rosselli Saporiti
Located in Milan, IT
prototypes for various furniture companies of the Milan hinterland. 'Moby Dick' was designed in 1969 for
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Vintage 1960s Italian Space Age Chaise Longues

Moby Dick by Herman Melville, First Edition, Illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville, Herman. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Moby Dick. New York: Random House, 1930. First
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Vintage 1930s American Books

Materials

Paper

Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Illustrated by Boardman Robinson, Easton Press
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, Or The Whale. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. The 100 Greatest Books Ever
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Books

Materials

Leather, Silk, Paper

Battering Ram (from Moby Dick Deckle Edges)
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
artist took as inspiration for his work literary sources such as Herman Melville's "Moby Dick."
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1990s American Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Mixed Media

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