After graduating from Southwestern College in 1934 with a degree in English, Cloar traveled to Europe for a few years before returning to the United States to attend the Memphis Academy of Arts (present day Memphis College of Art) and then the Art Students League in New York.
Information about Cloar's achievements and awards from his early career with links to the respective institutions. He received two major honors in his early career, the MacDowell Fellowship (1940) and the Guggenheim Institute Fellowship (1946).
Cloar's watercolor of a cowboy (pictured above, center) is on view in the fourth floor display in McWherter Library.
Catalog from the New York World's Fair published by the National Art Society. Carroll Cloar's Lithograph, Memory of a Place can be found on page 23 of the PDF.
Click here or on the image for a look at the full catalog, American Art Today: New York World's Fair.
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. All of the items from this research guide, and many from the Art Museum at the University of Memphis' exhibit, come from this collection.
In 1948 when Carroll Cloar was living in New York city he recorded a series of albums for a friend. The album is comprised of three records and is housed in an original album book decorated in original art. The album is currently on display in the department of Preservation & Special Collections' exhibit space located on the fourth floor of the Ned R. McWherter Library.
For more original tracks recorded by Carroll Cloar please visit the following tabs:Early and Rare Exhibition and An Artist's Transformation.
