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THBCarroll Cloar Signed Lithograph Plus Ephemera incl. Handwritten Postcard
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Knoxville, TN 37909
United States
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LiveJan 26, 2025
Live Auction at our Knoxville Gallery featuring 1,200+ lots from fine Southern estates and private and museum collections. Sale begins Sat. Jan. 25 at 9 AM EST with lots #1-783 (separate catalog) and continues Sun. Jan. 26 at 1 PM EST with lots #784-1261. Estates represented include Gertrude S. Caldwell, Nashville; John Z. C. Thomas, Knoxville; Dr. Larry Wolfe, Nashville; Norman Luboff; plus the collection of Jon E. Jones, Cookeville; and deaccessioned art from the Hunter Museum, Vanderbilt University Museum, the Memphis-Brooks Museum, and more. Case Auctions bid@caseantiques.com
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- Lot Description
Item 1: Carroll Cloar (American/Tennessee/Arkansas, 1913-1993) offset lithograph entitled "Historic Encounter Between E.H. Crump and W.C. Handy on Beale Street." Signed "Carroll Cloar" in pencil and numbered 77/300 to lower margin. Unframed. Sheet: 23" H x 31 3/4" W. Item 2: A 1971 postcard written by Cloar and addressed to William Dewey, Memphis, with the artist's stamped address, with content related to his artistic practice. The letter reads: "Dear Bill: I have a painting, / "Sunday Morning at the Shanty Boats" / (as marked free), if you / would like to see it some / time. / Carroll Cloar." 3 1/4" H x 5 1/2" W. Lot also includes four (4) ephemera items relating to the 2013 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art exhibition "The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South" including a museum brochure, museum flyer, museum children's activity sheet, and newspaper clipping as well as two (2) ephemera items relating to the 2013 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, exhibition "Carroll Cloar; Southern Raconteur" including a brochure and flyer. Biographical note: Carroll Cloar''s work is celebrated for capturing "the essence of a vanishing South" (Marilyn Sadler, "The Art and Life of Carroll Cloar," Memphis Magazine, June 1, 2011). The artist was known for incorporating nostalgic images, often from his Southern childhood, sometimes merged with dreamlike motifs, into powerful magic realist scenes, and he often noted that literature, particularly by Southern Gothic writers such as William Faulkner or Eudora Welty, influenced his artistic approach. Born in Arkansas, Cloar graduated from Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee, and went on to study at the Memphis Academy of Arts under the artist George Oberteuffer. In 1936, he moved to New York to attend the Art Students League. There, Cloar''s achievements earned him a MacDowell fellowship which he used to travel across the American Southwest, West Coast, and Mexico. Cloar served with the Army Air Corps during World War II and upon his return was awarded a Guggenheim traveling scholarship to fund an extended sojourn to Central and South America. Two years later, several of his images were featured in a Life Magazine article titled Backwoods Boyhood, and Cloar''s work began to earn national acclaim. By the mid-1950s, he had settled permanently in Memphis, where he produced paintings, often executed in casein tempera and acrylic paints. His works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooks Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. In 1993, Cloar''s painting, Faculty and Honor Students, Lewis Schoolhouse, was one of six paintings by American artists selected to commemorate the inauguration of President Clinton. (Sources: The Johnson Collection/Memphis Brooks Museum of Art).
Condition
1st item with marginal foxing, otherwise excellent condition. 2nd item in excellent condition with light toning. Ephemera items with minor use and handling wear.
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