Background

Carter, Clarence Holbrook was born on March 26, 1904 in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. Son of Clarence William and Hettie May (Holbrook) Carter.

Education

Student, Cleveland School Art, 1923-1927; studied abroad under, H. Hofman, Capri, Italy, summer 1927; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Moravian College, 1994.

Career

Instructor Cleveland Museum Art, 1930-1937. Assistant professor painting and design Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1938-1944. Guest instructor painting Cleveland Institute Art, summer 1948, Minneapolis School Art., fall 1949, Lehigh University, 1954, Ohio University, 1955.

Atlanta Art Institute, 1957. Guest artist University Iowa, Spring 1970. Artist-in-residence Lafayette College, 1961-1969, consultant, 1970-1971.

Guest artist Kent State University, 1975, Iowa State University, Ames, 1975. General superintendent Federal Art Project, Cleveland District, 1937-1938.

Achievements

• Clarence Holbrook Carter has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Ninth Hour

  • House Key

  • Untitled - Faces in a Grid (Red)

  • Tulip

  • Burning Bush

  • Red Mandala

  • Merry-Go-Round

  • Fireworks Stand

  • Yellow Mandala

  • William Stolte, Ex-Councilman

  • Acrobats

  • Untitled

  • Eschantos 31

  • Maidenhood

  • Transection I

  • Sienna

  • Arches

  • Pipeline

  • Jane Reed and Dora Hunt

  • Over and Above #14

  • The Watcher

  • Mandala No. 2

  • Nude Torso

  • Green Mandala

  • Eschatos 18

  • Untitled - Early Spring Landscape

  • Untitled - Country Road

  • Transection #15

  • Carousel

  • Untitled - Faces in a Grid (Red and Blue)

  • Mary Anne Moore

  • Antique Shop

  • Concentric Space

  • Fiery Furnace

  • Over and Above Series (Fox)

  • Oil Well

  • Icon Pyrophorous

  • On the Great Lakes

  • Balancing Act

  • The Flood

  • Pilgrimage #6

  • Pilgrimage #4

  • Transection No. 7

  • Eschantos 28

  • Homestead

  • Eschatos 23

  • Transection #3, After Fra Angelico

  • Untitled

  • Factory

  • Clowns Making Up

  • Eschantos 21

  • Over and Above #13

  • Abstract Tulip

  • Nude in motion

  • Highway

  • Eschantos #15

  • Joseph and his Brothers

  • Teal Mandala

  • 1st National Bank

Membership

Member National Academy of Design.

• American Water Color Society , United States

  1962

Connections

Married Mary B. Griswold, May 4, 1929. Children: John Holbrook, Peter Griswold, Clarence Blakesley.

Father:

Clarence William Carter

Mother:

Hettie May (Holbrook) Carter

Spouse:

Mary B. Griswold

child:

Peter Griswold Carter

child:

John Holbrook Carter

child:

Clarence Blakesley Carter

References

• Clarence Holbrook Carter
• Clarence Holbrook Carter: [exhibition] September 14-October 9, 1982
• Clarence Holbrook Carter: [exhibition] Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mar. 8 through Mar. 30, 1975
• A retrospective exhibition of paintings and constructions by Clarence Holbrook Carter: [held] March 30-May 27, 1974, New Jersey State Museum
• Clarence H. Carter: Works from the 20's, 30's, and 40's : December 6, 1980-January 3, 1981