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Aug 31, 2005

Port Huron

1936

Clarence Holbrook Carter

(American,1904–2000)

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Oil on canvas

Framed: 86.3 x 98.4 x 6.4 cm (34 x 38 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 68.9 x 81.6 cm (27 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1936.2698

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not on view

Artist biography

Clarence Holbrook Carter

One of Cleveland’s most imaginative interpreters of the American scene, Clarence Carter was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and developed a love of drawing at an early age. Encouraged by his family, he took private watercolor lessons and won art prizes in county and state fairs in his early teens. He studied with William Eastman, Henry Keller, and Paul Travis at the Cleveland School of Art, 1923–27. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1927–39). In 1927 William Milliken, then curator of paintings at the art museum, organized a subscription scholarship to allow Carter two years of travel through Italy, Switzerland, England, and France. In the summer of 1927 he studied in Capri with Hans Hofmann. On returning to Cleveland in 1929, Carter had his first solo exhibition at the Cleveland Art Center. He taught studio classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930–37. In 1934, under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal art programs, Carter was commissioned to paint two murals for Cleveland Public Auditorium. For a subsequent governmental art program, the Works Progress Administration, he served as a district supervisor for painting projects in north east Ohio. After 1935 he completed two federal mural commissions: one for the post office in Ravenna, Ohio, and another for the post office in his hometown. In 1938 he moved to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). During the 1930s and 1940s he showed in annual exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Transformations in Cleveland Art (CMA, 1996), p. 224

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Inscription

signed lower left: Clarence H. Carter 36.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist in the '36 May Show.

Citations

Clarence Holbrook Carter Entry Card to 1936 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Exhibition history

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Draftsmen (May, 1936) Honorable Mention; see The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (May 1936) p. 65, 71, not illus.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Paintings and Prints By Cleveland Artists (16 March-16 April 1937) listed cat. no. 25, p. 8; not illus.

Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Clarence H. Carter (18 April-2 June 1940) listed cat. no. 17, not illus.

Art Gallery of Toronto, (1945)

Stony Brook, NY, Suffolk Museum at Stony Brook, Retrospective Exhibition: Clarence Holbrooke Carter (25 August-12 September 1948) listed no. 9; not illus.

Cleveland, Cleveland School of Art, Clarence H. Carter in Review (1 November-19 November 1948) listed, cat. not numbered.

Cleveland, Intown Club (14 September-6 October 1970)

Trenton, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Clarence Holbrooke Carter (30 March-27 May 1974) illus. cat. no. 13, pg. 21.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, Clarence Carter Retrospective (1976)

Cleveland, Frank J. Lausche State Office Building Gallery of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art Collects Cleveland Art (1980)

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Insitute of Art: 100 Years (22 December 1982-30 January 1983) listed cat. no. 35, p. 29, not illus

Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries (9/7/2007 - 10/27/2007): 'From Here to Infinity"

The May Show: 18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 6-June 14, 1936).

Untitled Exhibition. Intown Club, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-October 6, 1970).

A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Clarence Holbrooke Carter. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (organizer) (March 20-May 27, 1974).

The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983).

Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989).

From Here to Infinity. The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 27, 2007).

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