id: 148754
accession number: 1929.1976
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.1976
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A Woman of the Sabines, 1928. Clarence Holbrook Carter (American,1904–2000). Oil on canvas; unframed: 55.3 x 46.4 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1929.1976
title: A Woman of the Sabines
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creation date: 1928
creation date earliest: 1928
creation date latest: 1928
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creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Cleveland School
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Clarence Holbrook Carter (American,1904–2000) - artist
One of Cleveland’s most imaginative interpreters of the American scene, Clarence Carter was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and developed a love of drawing at an early age. Encouraged by his family, he took private watercolor lessons and won art prizes in county and state fairs in his early teens. He studied with William Eastman, Henry Keller, and Paul Travis at the Cleveland School of Art, 1923–27. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1927–39). In 1927 William Milliken, then curator of paintings at the art museum, organized a subscription scholarship to allow Carter two years of travel through Italy, Switzerland, England, and France. In the summer of 1927 he studied in Capri with Hans Hofmann. On returning to Cleveland in 1929, Carter had his first solo exhibition at the Cleveland Art Center. He taught studio classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930–37. In 1934, under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal art programs, Carter was commissioned to paint two murals for Cleveland Public Auditorium. For a subsequent governmental art program, the Works Progress Administration, he served as a district supervisor for painting projects in north east Ohio. After 1935 he completed two federal mural commissions: one for the post office in Ravenna, Ohio, and another for the post office in his hometown. In 1938 he moved to Pittsburgh to teach at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). During the 1930s and 1940s he showed in annual exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Transformations in Cleveland Art (CMA, 1996), p. 224
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measurements: Unframed: 55.3 x 46.4 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
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inscription: signed lower left: Clarence H. Carter 28.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 11th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1929-04-23T05:00:00
The May Show: 11th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-June 2, 1929).
title: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Clarence Holbrooke Carter
opening date: 1974-03-20T04:00:00
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Clarence Holbrooke Carter. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (organizer) (March 20-May 27, 1974).
title: The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art
opening date: 1989-01-24T05:00:00
The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Eleventh Annual Exhibition by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen, (May, 1929) see The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (May, 1929), pp. 79-86, 95, 98, Third Prize for Oil Painting, Figure Composition, listed p. 95; not illus.', 'opening_date': '1929-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Elmira, NY, Arnot Art Gallery, Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Water Colors, and Drawings by Clarence Holbrooke Carter (January, 1930) listed cat. no. 16, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1930-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, Cleveland School of Art, Clarence H. Carter in Review (1 November-19 November 1948) listed', 'opening_date': '1948-11-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Trenton, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Clarence Holbrooke Carter (30 March-27 May 1974) illus. cat. no. 2, p. 16.', 'opening_date': '1974-03-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Tulsa, Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, Clarence Carter Retrospective (1976)', 'opening_date': '1976-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Purchased in 1929 from the 11th May Show
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Clarence Holbrook Carter Entry Card to 1929 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01654
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