Lithograph, numbered 34/35, pencil signed and titled along lower margin, dated 2000, depicting the artist's wife, custom plexiglass box frame.

DOA 42.5 x 30.5 in.

Purchased at the auction of the Personal Collection of Mr. Joseph D. Rowand, Hillsborough, North Carolina, founder of Somerhill Gallery

"Bert" Carpenter, born in Billings, Montana, was educated at Stanford University, the Chouinard Art Institute, and Columbia University. After teaching at Columbia and the University of Hawaii - Manoa, he moved to Greensboro where he headed he art department at UNC-G from 1964 to 1974. He continued teaching at UNC-G and serving as director for the Weatherspoon Art Gallery until his retirement in 1989. In 1999, the Weatherspoon mounted a retrospective of his work which traveled to St. John's Museum of Art in Wilmington, and elsewhere.

$500 - 1,000