Dudley C. Carter was a woodcarver from the Pacific Northwest. His works are on display in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon

Oregon

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 and California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. There are also works of his on display in Japan

Japan

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 and Germany

Germany

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Carter was a participant in the "Art in Action

Art in Action

Art in Action was an exhibit of artists at work displayed for four months in the summer of 1940 at the Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island. Many famous artists took part in the exhibit, including Dudley C. Carter, woodcarver and Diego Rivera, muralist...

" program during the 1940 season of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition

Golden Gate International Exposition

The Golden Gate International Exposition , held at San Francisco, California's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair that celebrated, among other things, the city's two newly-built bridges. The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge was dedicated in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in 1937...

. He was also the first King County, Washington

King County, Washington

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 Parks and Recreation artist in residence when he was 96 years old.

Early life

Dudley Carter was born to a pioneer family on May 6, 1891 in New Westminster, Canada

Canada

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. He was a timber cruiser and forest engineer most of his life, exploring and mapping Pacific Northwest wilderness. The chief inspiration for Carter's art was his childhood among the Kwakiutl

Kwakiutl

The term Kwakiutl, historically applied to the entire Kwakwaka'wakw ethno-linguistic group of originally 28 tribes, comes from one of the Kwakwaka'wakw tribes, the Kwagu'ł or Kwagyeulth, at Fort Rupert, with whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act Band government...

 and Tlingit Indians. He worked using primitive tools, such as the wood ax.

Diego Rivera Project and City College of San Francisco

Carter was a participant in the "Art in Action" program during the 1940 season of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. During that time he became a friend of Diego Rivera, who included Carter three separate times in his mural Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on this Continent.http://www.riveramural.org/panel.asp?section=mural&key=1025&language=english Rivera said the following about Carter:

Here in the Fine Arts Building there is a man carving wood. This man was an engineer, an educated and sophisticated man. He lived with the Indians and then he became an artist, and his art for was like Indian art—only not the same, but a great deal of Indian feeling had passed into him and it came out in his art. Now, what he carves is not Indian any more, but his own expression—and his own expression now has in it what he has felt, what he has learned from the Indians. That is right, that is the way art should be. First the assimilation and then the expression. Only why do the artists of this continent think that they should always assimilate the art of Europe? They should go to the other Americans for their enrichment, because if they copy Europe it will always be something they cannot feel because after all they are not Europeans.

There are three works by Carter on the City College Campus, The Ram (sometimes Mountain Ram),Goddess of the Forest, and The Beast.http://www.wag-aic.org/1996/WAG_96_schniewind.pdf

Influence in the Seattle, Washington, area

When 96 years old, Carter became the first artist-in-residence of the King County Parks and Recreation Department.http://www.seattlepi.com/visualart/hart14.shtml?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1989

Dudley Carter had a home at 7447 159th Place Northeast in Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle. The population was 54,144 at the 2010 census,up from 45,256 in 2000....

. Located in Slough House Park, the house was named "Haida House Studio." It is now owned by the city of Redmond.

Upon his death, Congressman Rod Chandler honored Dudley Carter with remarks in the Congressional Record.

Selected works

Various works by Carter:

• Forest Deity at Bellevue Square Shopping Center, Bellevue
• Visions of the Deep at the Northwest Arts Center, 9825 Northeast 24th Street, Bellevue
• Chief Spokan Garry at St. Dunstan's Church of the Highlands Parish, Shoreline, Washington
  St. Dunstan's Church of the Highlands Parish, Shoreline, Washington
  Saint Dunstan's Church of the Highlands Parish is an Episcopal congregation of over 250 people in the Diocese of Olympia. The main church location is located on the city limits between Seattle and Shoreline, Washington. Parishioners primarily come from the northern Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds, and...
  
  , carved in 1961
• Adventures in Western Waters at the entrance to Northwest Hospital, 1550 North 115th Street, Seattle, carved in 1987
• A totem pole at the entrance to Northgate Shopping Center, Seattle, in 1952. Removed from the mall in 2007; extensively restored by the Washington Suquamish tribe and placed on the Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort grounds in February 2008.
• The Legend of the Moon at King County's Marymoor Park
  Marymoor Park
  Marymoor Park, located on the north end of Lake Sammamish in Redmond, Washington, is King County's largest, oldest, and most popular park, with more than 3 million annual visitors coming to roam its . Among recreational activities available are various sports facilities, rock climbing, a dog park...
  
  in Redmond, carved in 1977
• Three works titled "Faith", "Hope", and "Love" on entrance wall of Bayview Retirement Community, 11 W. Aloha, Queen Anne. carved approx. 1960