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Lot 243
Gilbert Frederick "Bert" Carpenter (American, 1920-2003), The Emporium
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Acrylic on board, signed and dated 1993, framed under glass.

Frame dimensions 15 x 21 in.

Exhibited:
Greensboro, North Carolina, Bert Carpenter: A Retrospective, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, January 31 - March 28, 1999.

"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.

Good estate condition; not examined out of the frame.