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Early and Rare: Selections from the Carroll and Pat Cloar Collection

A collaborative effort between the University Libraries, the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, and the Brooks Museum to exhibit the works of Mid-South artist Carroll Cloar in celebration of his 100th birthday.

A Regional Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Carroll Cloar's Birth

Studio portrait of Carroll Cloar in New York City.
 
I don’t want people to forget Carroll...[h]is appeal is universal. And while his paintings hang in major museums, many of his works are owned by art lovers in Memphis.
             
                                                                                                       Pat Cloar Milstead

Community Links

 

Links to local museums and galleries that will have Carroll Cloar's works on display in 2013.

 

 

 

 

DLG

David Lusk Gallery

Southern Raconteur

 

Crossing Place

Summer of Cloar in the News

The Carroll Cloar Collection at the University Libraries

In the 1990s Pat Cloar Milsted, widow of Carroll Cloar, donated his papers to the University Libraries. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs (many which were used as raw materials for his paintings), and numerous exhibition catalogs that were amassed over the artist's life. All of the items from this research guide, and many from the Art Museum of the University of Memphis' exhibit, come from this collection.

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