Clarence Holbrook Carter Portrait 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.to
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Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter
Maidenhood, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Maidenhood
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1977
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 30
Image Size: 27 x 19.5 inches
Size: 30 in. x 22 i...
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1970s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
Down by the River, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Down by the River
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1981
Lithograph, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil
Edition of AP 30
Size: 25 x 32 in. (63.5 x 81.28 cm)
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1980s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Portrait Prints
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Lithograph
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Find a wide variety of authentic Clarence Holbrook Carter portrait prints available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Clarence Holbrook Carter in lithograph and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Clarence Holbrook Carter portrait prints, so small editions measuring 22 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Carol Wax, Lilya Vorobey, and Harry Sternberg. Clarence Holbrook Carter portrait prints prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $475 and tops out at $850, while the average work can sell for $663.