Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Medium: Graphite on paper
Signature: signed and dated, two lower right; one upper left
Dimensions:
9 in. h. x 6 in. w.
Description:
"...the most ambitious painting I did with circus material. The subject appealed to me because it suggested both the intimate life outside the big top and the excitement inside. The girls were waiting outside for the moment they would dash into the tent to perform acts of daring and precision." -Clarence Holbrook Carter, as quoted in Frank Anderson Trapp's, Clarence Holbrook Carter (New York: Rizzoli, 1989) 18.
Type of Work: Drawings
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Kentucky Hills, 1929 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Green House, 1930 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Railroad Avenue (Cleveland), 1930 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Blonde, 1932 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Lemons, 1933 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Still Life with Apples, 1940 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Hospitalities Long Past, 1941 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Riding the Surf, 1945 Clarence Holbrook Carter
Snow in the Forest, 1945 Clarence Holbrook Carter