Clarence Holbrook Carter Abstract Prints
American, 1904-2000
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.(Biography provided by WOLFS)
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Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter
Blue and Red Space
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue and Red Space
Ilk Screen, 1971
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
editioned lower left (see photo)
Edition: 75 (75/75)
Sheet size: 22 1/8 x 29 7/8"
Image: 21-7/8 x 29-5/8"...
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Brown Mandala, Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Brown Mandala
Year: 1969
Medium: Silkscreen on Scintilla paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
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Highway, Pop Art Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Highway
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 30 x 22 inches
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Burning Bush, Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Burning Bush
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP...
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Transection I, Silkscreen by Clarence Carter 1971
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Transection I
Year: 1971
Medium: Screenprint on Scintilla paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Paper Size:...
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Colorful Geometric Abstract, Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter 1971
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Untitled - Faces in a Grid (Red)
Year: 1971
Medium: Screenprint on Scintilla paper, Signed and numbered in pencil
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Green Mandala, Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Green Mandala
Year: 1969
Medium: Screenprint on Scintilla paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Paper Size:...
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Mandalas, Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter 1973
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Untitled (Mandalas in a Grid)
Year: 1973
Medium: Silkscreen on Scintilla paper, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition:...
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Red Mandala, OP Art Silkscreen by Clarence Carter 1969
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Red Mandala
Year: 1969
Medium: Silkscreen on Japon, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75
Paper Size: 30 in. x 22 ...
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Joseph and His Brothers, Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Joseph and his Brothers
Year: 1971
Medium: Screenprint on Scintilla paper, sign...
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Balancing Act, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Balancing Act
Year: 1976
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, A...
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Fiery Furnace, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Fiery Furnace
Year: 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Paper Size: 35 x 26 inc...
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"Concentric Space (White)", Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Concentric Space (White)
Year: 1969
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Size: 29 x 22 inches
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The Watcher
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: The Watcher
Year: 1977
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP...
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Tulip, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Tulip
Year: 1978
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Paper Size: 35 x 25.75 inches
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Eschantos 31, Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Eschantos 31
Year: 1978
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Size: 26 in. x 33.5 in. (...
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Abstract Tulip, 1979 by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Abstract Tulip
Year: 1979
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Paper Size: 35 x 26 inches (88...
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"Concentric Space (Silver)", Silkscreen by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Concentric Space (Silver)
Year: 1969
Medium: Silkscreen on foil paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
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