Description

Description: This whimsical chin de colle/lithograph is editioned and signed in graphite: “44-10 John Carroll” at the lower margin. It is also signed in full in the plate.

Image measures: 11 1/8″ x 10 1/4″ on a 19 3/4″ x 12 1/2″ sheet. Item #PR00615

John Carroll (1892-1959) was born near Wichita, Kansas. He grew up in San Francisco and studied at the Mark Hopkins Art Academy and UC Berkeley. He made his way to New York City, where he worked for Tiffany Studios designing stained glass windows and traveled upstate to spend time at the artists’ colonies in Woodstock. A Guggenheim Fellowship in 1929 funded a trip to Europe where he stayed for a number of years. Once back in the United States, Carroll was head of the painting department at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. He retired in New York City and East Chatham, New York. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian Institute. His large painting, Showgirl, was recently on view as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art collection.

Condition: Light dampstaining in blank margins not visible in lithograph. Matted to: 22 1/4″ x 21 3/4″.