United States, (1904-2000)
About the Artist:
Clarence Holbrook Carter, United States, (1904-2000) was a painter, etcher and educator. He studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927, and earned key patronage from William Millikin, the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Millikin arranged for Carter to study in Italy for the summer of 1927.
Throughout the 1930s and 40s he was known for his paintings of rural America and the burden brought on by the Great Depression. From 1938 to 1944, Carter taught painting and design at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Technical Institute; Carter would in time be a professor, visiting lecturer or artist-in-residence at seven US universities. By the end of World War II he had adopted a more surrealist approach to painting. In 1949, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1964.
Recognition of Carter’s place in American art spiked in the 1970s, when he was mentioned or discussed at some length in 11 books. Carter won the 1972 Cleveland Arts Prize for the Visual Arts and is perhaps the city’s most successful artist. [DES-02/2020]
Additional information:
- Clarence Holbrook Carter in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- Clarence Holbrook Carter Permanent Collection at the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth, Ohio