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Milliken at the Century of Progress, Chicago

1940

Clarence Holbrook Carter

(American,1904–2000)

America, Ohio, Cleveland

Oil on canvas

Framed: 90.2 x 125 x 9 cm (35 1/2 x 49 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 74 x 109.5 cm (29 1/8 x 43 1/8 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1992.6

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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 corner: Clarence H. Carter 40.

Provenance

Clarence Holbrook Carter; [Hirschl & Adler Gallery); (Barbara Mathes Gallery); (Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc.).

Citations

Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79. Reproduced: p. 49; Mentioned: p. 48-49, 66 www.jstor.org

Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. Reproduced: P. 25, fig. 20

Exhibition history

Allentown, PA, Muhlenberg College Center for the Arts, Clarence H. Carter Retrospective Exhibition (13 May-21July 1978) illus.

Portsmouth, OH, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Clarence H. Carter, Fifty Years of Art: Inaugural Exhibition (8 September-6 October 1979) illus. no. 7 illus.

Easton, PA, Van Wickle Gallery, Lafayette College, Clarence Holbrooke Carter (14 April-17 May 1980) cat. no. 7.

Berlin, West Germany, Neuen Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Amerika Traum und Depression 1920/1940 (9 November-28 December 1980); traveled to Hamburg, West Germany, Kunstverein (11 January-15 February 1981); illus. cat. no. 67, p. 270; listed p. 528.

Youngstown, OH: The Butler Institute of American Art, Fireworks: American Artists Celebrate the Eighth Art (14 September-26 October 1986) illus; catalogue not numbered.

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, Selections: Fall 1988 (Fall, 1988) illus. cat. no. 14.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Clarence H. Carter: Early Works (14 January-18 February 1989) listed cat. no. 5; not illus.

Christies, Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries (30 November-6 December 1991) illus. cat. no. 207, pg. 193.

Cleveland, Cleveland Institute of Art Reinberger Galleries, Spirit of Cleveland (19 September-22 October 1995); traveled to Canton, Canton Museum of Art, (24 November 1995-6 January 1996); to Lima, Ohio, ArtSpace (19 January-2 March 1996); Columbus, The Riffe Gallery (9 May-27 July 1996); to Lakewood, Ohio, Beck Center for Cultural Arts (15 August-1 October 1996); listed p. 46; biography pg. 23.

Portsmouth, Ohio, Southern Ohio Museum, Clarence Carter: The Unknown Snapshot Studies (15 February-20 May 2004); traveled to Lakewood, Ohio, Beck Center for the Arts (19 June-19 September 2004); illus. fig. 57A, pg. 33.

Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

The Spirit of Cleveland: The Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Arts Prize, 1961-1995. The Cleveland Institute of Art (organizer) (September 19-October 22, 1995); Canton Museum of Art (November 24, 1995-January 6, 1996); ArtSpace Lima (January 19-March 2, 1996); Riffe Gallery (May 9-July 27, 1996); Beck Center for the Arts (September 15-October 30, 1996).

Clarence Carter: The Snapshot Studies. Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH (organizer) (February 14-May 20, 2004); Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (June 19-September 19, 2004).

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

In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 13, 2010-March 13, 2011).

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