
Salvatore Scarpitta, Moby Dick (Extramural-Composition n. 3), 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