Sat, Mar 18
|San Francisco
Dudley Carter: Diego Rivera’s Man With an Axe, Times Three
Join TIM for a special screening of award-winning documentary Dudley Carter, and Q+A with filmmaker Abby Sher!
Time & Location
Mar 18, 2023, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
San Francisco, 1 Avenue of the Palms, San Francisco, CA 94130, USA
About
Special screening of an award-winning documentary of master wood sculptor Dudley C. Carter and Q+A with filmmaker Abby Sher.
Presented by the Treasure Island Museum in the lobby of historic Building One
1 Avenue of the Palms, Treasure Island, San Francisco 94130
Free and open to the public
About the Event:
Join Treasure Island Museum for a special screening of an award-winning documentary with filmmaker Abby Sher.
How did woodsman and sculptor Dudley C. Carter so captivate Diego Rivera that he enshrined three Carters at the center of his Pan American Unity mural at the Golden Gate International Exposition? Was it the monumental façade Carter carved for the fair’s Shasta-Cascade Building in 1939? Or perhaps the sculptures he created with his double-bitted axe while working near Rivera during the “Art in Action” in 1940?
A career “timber cruiser” in the Pacific Northwest, Carter was also a prolific artist who created monumental sculptures and Haida-Indian inspired dwellings from cedar trees. He also captivated filmmaker Abby Sher, who will screen her award-winning documentary, Dudley Carter, which chronicles Carter’s long life as a woodsman and artist witnessing a century of change.