gilbert-frederick-bert-carpenter-american-nc-hi-mt-1920-2003-i-toward-the-legs-i
Lot 4123
Gilbert Frederick "Bert" Carpenter (American, NC/HI/MT), 1920-2003), Toward the Legs
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Woodblock print, 1968, pencil signed, dated, and titled lower margin, matted and framed.

Frame dimensions 23 x 27 1/4 in.

Private Collection of Modern Art and Design, North Carolina

"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 the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro 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.

Some foxing; slight surface nick lower center; not examined out of frame.