Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape 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
Country Road, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Country Road
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: Circa 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Size: 30 x 22 in...
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1970s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Eschatos #23, Surrealist Landscape Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
The sublime, or the amalgamation of the terrifying and the awe-inspiring, is encapsulated by the crashing wave that dominates this surrealist landscape.
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Ca...
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Pilgrimage #6, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Pilgrimage #6
Year: 1977
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Size: 26 in. x 34 in. ...
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1970s Surrealist Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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OLIVE TREES, CAPRI
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Portland, ME
Carter, Clarence Holbrook (American, 1904-2000). OLIVE TREES, CAPRI. Aquatint in colors, 1932. Titled,signed and dated in pencil. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (plat...
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1930s Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Aquatint
Bauxite Factory, Suriname, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bauxite Factory, Suriname
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 30
Image Size: 17.75 x 26 inches
Siz...
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1980s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Eschatos #21, Surrealist Landscape Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Eschatos 21
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Size: 23 in. x 29 in. (58.42 cm x 7...
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Early Spring Landscape, Signed Lithograph by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Early Spring Landscape
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of AP 30
Image Size: 18 x 25 inches
Size: 21 x 29 ...
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1970s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Sienna, Signed American Modern Screenprint by Clarence Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sienna
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1979
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 30
Image Size: 20 x 13 inches
Size: 25.5 in. x 20 in. ...
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1970s American Modern Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Eschatos #18, Surrealist Landscape Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Eschatos 18
Year: 1977
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Image Size: 22 x 29.5 in...
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1970s Surrealist Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Highway, Pop Art Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Highway
Year: 1979
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Image Size: 30 x 22 inches
Paper Si...
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1970s Op Art Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Eschatos #28, Surreal Landscape Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Eschatos 28
Year: 1977
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Size: 26 in. x 34 in. (6...
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1970s Surrealist Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Screen
Homestead, Surrealist Lithograph by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Homestead
Year: 1979
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Size: 23 in. x 29 in. (58....
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1970s American Realist Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Lithograph
Pilgrimage #4, Surrealist Screenprint by Clarence Holbrook Carter
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Pilgrimage #4
Year: 1977
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
Size: 26 in. x 34 in. ...
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1970s Surrealist Clarence Holbrook Carter Landscape Prints
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Title: Eschatos 23
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Eschatos #23
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 2000)
Title: Eschatos 23
Year: 1977
Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, 30 AP
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