Carl Bates

From the Yale Alumni Magazine Class Notes:

Unfortunately, Carl Bates died following a long battle with cancer on December 12, 2022, in Palm Springs, California. After Yale, where Carl earned All-Ivy honors in lacrosse and graduated with a B.A. in Art History, Carl worked variously as a visual artist, musician, carpenter, builder, and stone masonry contractor. He was a long-time member of an artists’ and architects’ community on Prickly Mountain in Warren, Vermont, where, to quote his obituary, “they embarked on innovative experiments in sustainable architecture, green technology, community planning, and what would come to be called the Design-Build movement.” On Prickly Mountain, Carl built his own house entirely from stone and also drove a snowplow, an experience he chronicled in an unpublished novel, The Plowman Chronicles. Carl spent many winters in Costa Rica and, in his later years, in Palm Springs, where he continued his painting and visual art work and enjoyed biking, hiking, birdwatching and golfing. Carl’s work was shown in numerous exhibitions, including in New York, Washington, D.C., the Segunda Exposicion de la Nueva Pintura de Costa Rica at the Museo Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica, and in a solo exhibition in 2019 at the Madsonian Museum in Waitsfield, Vermont. Most recently, his work was included in a group show, Depicting Duchamp: Portraits of Marcel Duchamp and/or Rrose Sélavy, at the Francis Nauman Gallery in New York in 2020 (which exhibition also included a work by his daughter, the artist Larissa Bates). We send our condolences to his wife, Lourie, and to his two children, three stepchildren and seven grandchildren.