Cat in Tall Grass

Inscription: Signed and dated (underside of base): © / Walters / 1939 [artist's mark]

the artist (1939–42; sold to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," December 7, 1942–February 22, 1943, unnumbered cat. (p. 32; awarded a Sixth Prize).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," March 8–May 10, 1943, no catalogue.

Boston. Institute of Modern Art. "Artists for Victory: Prize Winners," May 22–June 19, 1943, no catalogue.

Queens Museum. "American Sculpture: Folk and Modern," March 12–May 8, 1977, no. 86.

Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. "Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts," February 4–May 21, 2017, unnumbered cat. (pl. 23).

A. Hyatt Mayor. Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. A Picture Book of the Prize Winners. New York, 1942, unpaginated, ill.

"Artists for Victory Score Victory in Metropolitan Exhibition." Art Digest 17 (December 15, 1942), p. 7.

Edward Alden Jewell. "Artists for Victory: Afterthoughts on the Huge Nation-Wide Survey at the Metropolitan Museum." New York Times (December 20, 1942), p. X9.

"Record Art Show Has $52,000 Prizes." New York Times (December 8, 1942), p. 30.

Joan M. Marter in American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Thayer Tolles. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York and New Haven, 2001, pp. 721–22, no. 360, ill.

Tom Wolf in Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts. Exh. cat., Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. New Paltz, 2017, pp. 23, 80, colorpl. 23.

Adrienne Spinozzi in Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts. Exh. cat., Morgan Anderson Gallery of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. New Paltz, 2017, pp. 36–38, figs. 9 (color), 10 (radiograph).