The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is participating in the
Summer of Cloar with an exhibition called
The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South. I've never been a big fan of Cloar's paintings, and I feel like a traitor to the South saying so, but his style has just never particularly appealed to me for some reason.
I'm most familiar with his works
Wedding Party (1971) and
My Father Was Big as a Tree (1955), because they are part of the Brooks permanent collection and I remember them more than some of the others. They are pictured here:
My favorite from this exhibition is The Time of the Blackbirds (1955), which I can't find a picture of online. This exhibit names
Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog as his most famous work:
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Interesting works. I'm not familiar with the artist but will see if I can find our more about him on the link you provided. Always happy to look at new to me art.
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i love new to me art, too :) cloar has a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Cloar
DeleteThis is great stuff! I love how he works with old photos, adding their images onto landscapes that are somehow archetypal rather than real. And the colours are so wonderful. Very inspiring work, I´m saving some links for later. Thank you!
ReplyDeletecloar is a big deal around here. his studio was in memphis, and he's always been very popular here.
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