Carroll Cloar
Carroll Cloar | |
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Born | January 18, 1913 |
Died | April 10, 1993 |
Alma mater | Art Students League of New York |
Style | surrealism |
Carroll Cloar (January 18, 1913 – April 10, 1993) was a nationally known 20th-century painter born in Earle,
Guy Northrop, in his introduction on page 24 to Hostile Butterflies and Other Paintings by Carroll Cloar (1977), quoted Cloar describing his images as "American faces, timeless dress and timeless customs ... the last of old America that isn't long for this earth." His Panther Bourne work depicted a surreal, Southern-mythic nature scene. Cloar employed pointillism in his painting "Waiting up for Lettie," creating over 800 works in his lifetime.
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Cloar visited Mexico on a 1946 Guggenheim Fellowship. He traveled around Central and South America until 1950. His first one-man show was held in 1953 in Memphis. He moved permanently to Memphis in 1955, after determining the direction of his art was rooted in his Southern U.S. experience.
Cloar then completed 14 works in 1955, including the representative work, "My Father Was Big as a Tree." A New York showing in 1956 helped establish his career nationally. Tennessee museums later held more than 10 exhibitions of his works, while he also displayed his work in New York showings.
Cloar died in Memphis in 1993.
Museums that have acquired Cloar's works
- Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
- Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
- Art Museum of Sunrise, Charleston, WV
- Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
- Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
- Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
- Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, AR
- Carroll Reese Museum, Johnson City, TN
- Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN
- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
- Montgomery, AL
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
- Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
- Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
- Rockford Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
- Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
- State University of New York, Albany, NY
- Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
- Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
- Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
- Whitney Museum, New York, NY
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- University of Memphis Libraries, Memphis, TN