Carroll Cloar
American, 1913 - 1993
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Carroll Cloar was a nationally recognized painter and printmaker who captured life in the American South. The artist developed a distinctive artistic style that combined realist and surreal scenes of people and places culled from his own childhood memories. Cloar portrayed nostalgic rural scenes, children, and domesticity, often working from old photographs found in his family albums. In the work The Rose Eater (1967), he retains a formal rigor alongside a playfulness and a unique ability to see the world from a child’s point of view.
