Clarence Holbrook Carter (March 26, 1904 – June 4, 2000) born in Portsmouth, Ohio; American artist. Carter studied at the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927. Following graduation, he studied with Hans Hofmann in Capri, Italy, for the summer of 1927. Throughout the 1930s and 40s he was known for his paintings of rural America and the burden brought on by the Great Depression. By the end of World War II he had adopted a more surrealist approach to painting. In 1949, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1964. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Holbrook_Carter) Born March 26, 1904, Portsmouth, Ohio Died June 4, 2000, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Clarence Holbrook Carter, well-known for his large architectural paintings and symbolic landscapes, made his early reputation as a painter of the American scene in the 1930's and 1940's. These early drawings, watercolors and oils are realistic portrayals of rural America that sometimes express despair and loneliness spurred by the Great Depression. Following World War II Carter's style changed. Accomplishments in the field of advertising design encouraged experimentation and abstraction in his work. During the 1950s and 1960s, his work took on an increasingly surrealistic style with "monsters" and imaginary animals stalking fanciful landscapes. A prominent series of the period, Over and Above, features oversized animals leering at the viewer over a wall that dominates the lower portion of his large canvases. More recently, the Transections and Eschatos series incorporates floating, transparent ovoid shapes transposed onto architectural landscapes. They represent the artist's conception of the human spirit striving for perfection. (https://www.michenermuseum.org/bucksartists/artist/45/) undefined

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