Autumn Conversion
1953 · Tempera on board
20 1/8 x 26 1/8" (51.1 x 66.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Carroll Cloar
1913
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3
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7
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The Artist as His Subject
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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The Artist as His Subject
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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American Prints of the 20th Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954
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Master Prints from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Carroll Cloar was an American painter known for his narrative canvases depicting the rural and domestic life of the American South. Working primarily in oil, he developed a distinctive style that combined observational realism with a dreamlike, psychological intensity, often rendering solitary figures and intimate interior scenes with a muted, earthy palette. Active from the 1940s onward, his work captured the texture of postwar American experience through a deeply regional lens.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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