University at Albany Fine Art Collections : UAlbany Artwork : The Rose Eater [19690040]

[ Artwork description: Several people stand outside a distant white building with a brown path through a grassy field that makes its way toward the foreground of the image. At the foreground, two people stand alongside a bush with yellow flowers. One person eats a flower as the other looks on in surprise. ]

Carroll Cloar

The Rose Eater , 1967

Artwork Type: Paintings

Medium: Acrylic on masonite

Dimensions: 28 x 40 in. (71.12 x 101.6 cm)

Accession #: 19690040

Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , purchase of University at Albany, State University of New York

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Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections

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Carroll Cloar (1913–1993, American) 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.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections

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