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Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
American painter. Carter attended the Cleveland School of Art, and later studied under Hans Hofmann in Capri, Italy. He is best known for his paintings of rural America during the time of the Great Depression. Carter became an Associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1949, and later a full member in 1964. Many of his works permanently reside at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and many other institutions.