John Wesley Carroll Explained

John Wesley Carroll (Wichita, Kansas 1892 - Albany, New York Nov. 7, 1959)^[1] was an American painter known for his modernist portraits.

Biography

John Carroll was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in San Francisco, California. ^[2] He studied art at the University of California, Berkeley and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927,^[3] which allowed him to travel and work in Europe.He taught at the Art Students League in New York City before being chosen in 1930 to lead the painting department at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, where he taught for more than a decade. ^[4] A portrait he did of Gloria Vanderbilt and one of her children won the 1954 Benjamin Altman Prize from the National Academy of Design.Among several others, his work has been exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art,^[5] the Whitney Museum, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.^[6] He divided his time between his studio in New York City and his farm in East Chatham, New York where he raised cattle for the war effort.^[7] Carroll died in Albany, NY in 1959.

Style

Carroll was known for his romantic portraits of women ^{[8] [2]} His major influences included Paul Cézanne, George Bellows, and Andrew Dasburg.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Carroll | Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
2. Web site: John Carroll | LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
3. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | John Wesley Carroll.
4. Web site: Detroit Free Press 11 May 1930, page Page 61 .
5. Web site: John Carroll | MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
6. Web site: John Wesley Carroll - Artist Biography for John Wesley Carroll. www.askart.com.
7. Web site: John Carroll (1892 - 1959). Brier Hill Gallery.
8. Web site: John Carroll: Non-Conformist | Esquire | AUGUST 1938. Esquire | The Complete Archive.