bio

Born in Earle, AR, 1913
Died in Memphis, TN, 1993
   

education

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN   
Art Students League, New York, NY
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN

solo exhibitions

2007    David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2005    David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2003    David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2002    Greenville Arts Council, Greenville MS
2001    Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2000    David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1994    Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1993    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1991    Memphis State University, Memphis, TN
            Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989    Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1988    Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1987    Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY
1983    Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
            Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1981    Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1979    Forum Gallery, New York, NY
1976    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1973    Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY
1972    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1968    State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
            Alan Gallery, New York, NY
1967    M.H. DeYoung, Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1966    Alan Gallery, New York, NY
            Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1963    Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
1961    Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1960    High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

group exhibitions

2004    David Lusk Gallery, Jackson, MS
            Art in Embassies Program, Damascus, Syria
2002    Art of the 20th Century, New York, NY
            Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
1992    Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1991    Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1987    Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1983-84 Southern Artists, Traveling Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY;
              Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY;
              Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

selected publications

Carroll Cloar, Hostile Butterflies and Other Paintings, Memphis State University Press, 1977
Time Magazine
Life Magazine
The New York Times
Arkansas Democratic Gazette
Commercial Appeal
Memphis Business Journal
Memphis Magazine

museum collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Museum of Sunrise, Charleston, WV
Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Institute, OH
Carroll Reese Museum, Johnson City, TN
Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Rockford Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
State University of New York, Albany, NY
Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

awards

1978    Honorary Doctorate Degree, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
1966    Purchase Award, The American Institute of Arts and Letters
            Honorary Arkansas Traveler
            Honorary Phi Beta Kappa
            Library of Congress, Purchase Prize
            Butler Institute, Purchase Prize
1946    Guggenheim Fellowship
1940    MacDowell Traveling Fellowship