born 1913 Earle, Arkansas
died 1993 Memphis
education
Memphis College of Art, Memphis
Art Students League, New York
Rhodes College, Memphis
selected solo exhibitions
2007
The Story on the Fence, David Lusk Gallery
2005
The Collector's Cloar, Pine Bluff Arts & Science Center, AR
Recollection, David Lusk Gallery
2003
Carroll Sloar: Notable Drawings from the 60’s, David Lusk Gallery
2002
Dreams and Scenes: A Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs, Greenville Arts Council, MS
2001
Carroll Cloar: Beginning Points Revisited, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro
Crossroads: The Drawings of Carroll Cloar, Christian Brothers University, Memphis
2000
Works from the Estate, David Lusk Gallery
1993
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1991
Retrospective, Memphis State University
Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis
1988
Retrospective from Arkansas Collectors, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
1987
Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York
1983
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
1979
Forum Gallery, New York
1973
Carroll Cloar, Kennedy Galleries, New York
1968
State University of New York at Albany
Alan Gallery, New York
1967
M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco
1966
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
1963
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth
1961
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
1960
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
selected group exhibitions
2007
US Art in the Embassies Program, Adelaide, Australia
2004
US Art in the Embassies Program, Damascus, Syria
2002
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville
1983
Southern Artists, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Metropolitan Museum of Art
selected bibliography
Fredric Koeppel, The art in-house at Brooks, The Commercial Appeal, Playbook, Dec 22,2006
Paul Greenberg, Carrol Cloar in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, July 3, 2005
Lisa Broadwater, The Cult of Cloar, Arkansas Democratic Gazette,October 1, 2000
Vanessa E. Jones, Tugging Delta Heart Strings: Eloquence of Cloar to join artist Legacy, Commercial Appeal, June 25,1995
Linda Romine, The Collectible Carroll Cloar, Memphis Business Journal, Nov. 14-18, 1994
Edwin Howard, Remembering Cloar, the Stories His Works Capture, Memphis Business Journal, April 19-23, 1993
Marilyn Sadler, The Art and Life of Carroll Cloar, Memphis Magazine, 1993, pgs. 46-60
Roberta Smith, Carroll Cloar, a Realist Painter of Rural America, Is Dead at 80, The New York Times, April 13, 1993
Frederic Koeppel, MSU Award Lauds Cloar for Work as Artist, Commercial Appeal,March 6, 1991
Frederic Koeppel, Cloar Art Retrospective Contains Riches Galore, Commercial Appeal,March 3, 1991
Carroll Cloar, Hostile Butterflies and Other Paintings, Memphis State University Press, 1977
Arkansas Traveler, Time Magazine, March 5, 1956
Backwoods Boyhood, Life Magazine, January 26, 1948, pgs. 79-82
museum collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Art Museum of Sunrise, Charleston, WV
Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, Brooklyn
Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
Carroll Reese Museum, Johnson City, TN
Cheekwood Museum, Nashville
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Rockford Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
State University of New York, Albany, NY
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA