id:			136142
accession number:	1959.70
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.70
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:47.462000

Mysterious Lake Patterns, Lake Erie (Study for Lake Erie Patterns), c. 1930. Clarence Holbrook Carter (American,1904–2000). Watercolor with black chalk  ; sheet: 35.1 x 50.9 cm (13 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken 1959.70

title:				Mysterious Lake Patterns, Lake Erie (Study for Lake Erie Patterns)
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creation date:			c. 1930
creation date earliest:		1925
creation date latest:		1935
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creditline:			Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
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culture:	America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique:	Watercolor with black chalk  
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American - Cleveland School
type:		Drawing
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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. <br><em>Transformations in Cleveland Art</em> (CMA, 1996), p. 224
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measurements: Sheet: 35.1 x 50.9 cm (13 13/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed lower right, in brown watercolor: Clarence H. Carter. 20
Verso, upper left in graphite: Mysterious Lake Patterns, Lake Erie. 125

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Clarence Holbrook Carter Entry Card to 1930 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01872/

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