Scott Kelley
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Samuel Enderby, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Bachelor, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
SOLD
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Albatross, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Jeroboam, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Rachel, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Virgin, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Rosebud, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: The Pequod Meets the Delight, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Pequod, 2026
Watercolor, ink and gouache on paper
30" x 40"
Scott Kelley
Queequeg, 2026
Watercolor, ink and gouache on paper
40" x 30"
SOLD
Scott Kelley
Ahab, 2026
Watercolor, ink and gouache on paper
40" x 30"
Scott Kelley
Self Portrait as Ishmael, 2026
Watercolor, ink and gouache on paper
40" x 30"
Scott Kelley
Moby Dick Tattooed: Port, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15" x 40"
SOLD
Scott Kelley
Moby Dick Tattooed: Starboard, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15" x 40"
Scott Kelley
Be More Pirate, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
Don't Give Up The Ship, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
Avast, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
It Is Not Down On Any Map; True Places Never Are ~ Ishmael, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
SOLD
Scott Kelley
Storm Ended
Sea Calm
God Is Over All, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
And I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee ~ Job 1:15, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
Hold Fast, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
The Sea Hates A Coward, 2026
Ink on paper
12" x 18"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: Hast Seen The White Whale?, 2026
Watercolor on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab: Hast Seen The White Whale?, 2026
Watercolor on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
Moby Dick: Port Side, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
Moby Dick: Starboard Side, 2026
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
The Book of Ahab, 2026
Watercolor, graphite, ink and gouache on paper
15" x 22"
Scott Kelley
Spring - spring I say, all of ye - SPRING!, 2025-2026
Acrylic on linen
65" x 55"
Scott Kelley
Summer - you drop through that transparent air, into the summer sea, no more to rise forever., 2025-2026
Acrylic on linen
65" x 55"
Scott Kelley
Winter - cold as Jerusalem., 2025-2026
Acrylic on linen
65" x 55"
Scott Kelley
Fall - a damp drizzly November in my soul., 2025-2026
Acrylic on linen
65" x 55"
Scott Kelley
A Piece of Slow Bob, 1998 - 2026
One found object, one painted object
11-3/4" x 18-1/2" (11-3/4" x 9-1/4" each)
Scott Kelley
Signal Flare, 2023 - 2026
Acrylic on wood
30" x 40"
Scott Kelley
Chart, 2025 - 2026
Acrylic and enamel on wood
47-1/2" x 40"
Scott Kelley
Loomings, 2024 - 2026
One found flotsam, one painted object
24" x 1-1/4" each
Scott Kelley
Jonah historically regarded, 2024 - 2026
One found flotsam, one painted object, acrylic on wood
19-1/2" x 1" each
Scott Kelley
Ishmael and Ahab, Ahab and Ishmael, 2023 - 2026
Two found flotsam, two painted objects, acrylic on wood
3-3/4" x 2" x 1-3/4" each (top)
2-1/4" x 2" x 1-1/2" each (bottom)
Scott Kelley
Melville, 2025 - 2026
Acrylic and enamel on wood
7-1/2" x 5-3/4" x 2"
Scott Kelley
1st of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
2nd of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
3rd of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
4th of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
5th of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
6th of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
7th of Dead Men's Caps, 2026
Ink, watercolor, gouache on paper and carte de visite
13" x 19" x 6"
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
7-1/2"w x 7-1/2"h x 9"d (hat)
7-1/2"w x 22-1/2"h x 9"d (hat with stand)
SK312
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
7-1/4"w x 5-1/2"h x 8-3/4"d (hat)
7-1/4"w x 21-1/2"h x 8-3/4"d (hat with stand)
SK313
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
7"w x 6-1/2"h x 8-1/2"d (hat)
7"w x 22"h x 8-1/2"d (hat with stand)
SK314
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
6-1/4" x 5"h x 8-1/4"d (hat)
6-1/4" x 20-1/2"h x 8-1/4"d (hat with stand)
SK315
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
6-1/2"w x 9"h x 8-1/4"d (hat)
7-3/4"w x 25"h x 9-1/2"d (hat with stand)
SK316
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
6-3/4"w x 7"h x 9-1/2"d (hat)
11-1/2"w x 24"h x 11-3/4"d (hat with stand)
SK317
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
7-1/2"w x 6"h x 8-3/4"d (hat)
7-1/2"w x 22-1/4"h x 8-3/4"d (hat with stand)
SK318
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Cap, 2025 - 2026
Wool, resin and acrylic
7"w x 11"h x 8-1/2"d (hat)
11-3/4"w x 27-1/4"h x 11-1/2"d (hat with stand)
SK319
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Caps (the colors of the north Atlantic, high tide), 2025 - 2026
Ink, watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted to wood, with wrought iron
36" x 25" x 7"
Scott Kelley
Dead Men's Caps (the colors of the north Atlantic, low tide), 2025 - 2026
Ink, watercolor and gouache on paper, mounted to wood, with wrought iron
29-1/2"h x 25"w x 7"d
The tale of the vengeful Captain Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the great white whale, Moby Dick, has been an enduring source of inspiration for Kelley since he first encountered the novel as a teenager. "Moby Dick entered my life at the age of 16," he says, "and has informed everything I know, love, and hate about the sea, and all its moods." Multiple re-readings over the years prompted the artist's extensive research into whaling history and culture, resulting in an earlier series of watercolor paintings depicting whales and the imagined children of lost whalers.
The current exhibition, Scott Kelley: The Whale, is a culmination of his fascination with Melville's opus and its central themes of man versus nature and fate versus free will. Included is work in a variety of media, from painted resin sculptures of whalemen’s knit caps to three-dimensional shadow boxes of hand-drawn waves to large-scale watercolors of the novel's crew and scenes. "I've always thought of my gallery exhibits as operas complete with a cast of characters from a libretto," the artist has said.
Scott Kelley attended The Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, England. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, with postgraduate studies at The Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. His work has been shown at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, where it is in the permanent collection, and in more than thirty-five solo exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States. He has been an artist-in-residence at The Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York, and through The National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program at Palmer Station, Antarctica.