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Clarence Holbrook CarterChrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies1935
1935
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Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Signed and dated lower left (twice), see photo
Watercolor on paper, 1935
A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the orderly unfolding of the chrysanthemum's petals to represent perfection. Confucius once suggested they be used as an object of meditation. It's said that a single petal of this celebrated flower placed at the bottom of a wine glass will encourage a long and healthy life. Chrysanthemums are the flower for the month of November.
Provenance: Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland (noted collector and friend of Carter's)
This work was created during the 1930's when the artist was creating his best works. The 1930's work are the most highly sought after by collectors.
Regarding Carter:
A major watercolorist in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the early 20th century as well as teacher, Clarence Carter was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and received recognition for his art talent beginning with his childhood.
From 1923 to 1927, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art and earned key patronage from William Milliken, Director of The Cleveland Museum of Art and local arts supporter who arranged for Carter to study in Italy with Hans Hofmann in 1927.
Through the next four decades, Carter's works were labeled Surrealism, Magic Realism, Geometric Abstraction, Pop and Op, but no category could capture his style completely.
From 1929 to 1937, Carter taught at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a job arranged by Milliken. From 1937 to 1938, he was Director of the Federal Art Project for Northeastern Ohio, and from 1938 to 1944, he taught at the Carnegie Institute. He also served as guest instructor at various institutions including the Minneapolis School of Art (1949), Lehigh University (1954), Ohio University (1955), Atlanta Art Institute (1957), Lafayette College (1961), and the University of Iowa (1970).
It was in the mid-1960's, in his series called "Mandalas," that his fascination with the egg-shaped ovoid began. Author James A. Michener has commented that the egg in Carter's works is ". . . a mysterious symbol evoking the past, the origins, the overtones of Christianity."
Carter was a member of the American Water Color Society and in 1962, served as Vice President. He used a watercolor technique that involved precise use of form, quick color washes and little retouching. From the beginning of his career, Carter painted in a modernist idiom characterized by a precise, realist line and strong psychological component. His work from the 1930s can be considered part of American Scene painting, and he was much concerned with the complex realities of American rural life.
There is a rich emotional quality to Carter’s work, and he once said “For me no great art has ever existed without some mystery and some awe. That is the vast intangible, which can never be defined but only felt in an elusive way that stirs the spirit.” (Frank Anderson Trapp, Clarence Holbrook Carter [New York: Rizzoli Books, 1989], p. 7)
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- Creator:Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000, American)
- Creation Year:1935
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 14.75 in (37.47 cm)
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- Condition:Original condition.
- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
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Clarence Holbrook Carter
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers, scores of awards and solo exhibits, and streams of praise flowing from pens of the top art critics. Over the course of his 60+ year career Carter evolved from an exceptionally fine American Scene painter capable of evoking deep reservoirs of mood, into an abstractionist with a strongly surrealist bent. While his two bodies of work seem at first to be worlds apart, owing to their different formal vocabularies, they, in fact, explore virtually the same subject: the nexus between life and death and the transition from earth to spirit. The early work finds its expressive power through specific people, events, and landscapes—most of which are drawn from his experiences growing up in the river town of Portsmouth, Ohio—while the later work from the 1960s on evokes potent states of being through pure flat shape, color and form that read as universals. As his primary form he adopted the ovoid or egg shape, endowing it with varying degrees of transparency. Alone or in multiples, the egg moves through Carter’s landscapes and architectural settings like a sentient spirit on a restless quest. Born and raised in southern Ohio along the banks of the mercurial Ohio River and its treacherous floods, Carter developed a love of drawing as a child, and was encouraged by both his parents. He was self-directed, found inspiration all around him, and was strongly encouraged by the fact that his teenage work consistently captured art prizes in county and state fairs. Carter studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923-27, where he trained under painters Henry Keller, Frank Wilcox and Paul Travis. Returning to Cleveland in 1929, Carter had his first solo show, and through Milliken taught studio classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1930-37. In 1938, he moved to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology until 1944. Carter’s American Scene paintings of the ’30s and ’40s, which launched his artistic star, are the works for which the artist remains best known. During and immediately after World War II, Clarence Carter realized his attraction to bold pattern, dramatic perspective and eye-catching hard-edged design was a poor fit with the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism. Fortunately, these same hallmarks of his style were prized within the realm of commercial art. Around 1964 Carter acknowledged a need to break from the confines of representational painting. Once Carter had found a potent symbol in the egg, he used it to create an astounding body of imagery for the rest of his life. Among the most ambitious of all his later paintings were his Transections, a theological term meaning to cross, specifically between life and death.
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