Gilbert Frederick "Bert" Carpenter (American, 1920-2003), The Rimrocks, Evening

Watercolor on paper, 1937, initialed to lower right, retaining exhibition label and auction tag, framed below glass.

Sight size 10 x 14 5/8 in.; Frame dimensions 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.

Private Collection, North Carolina

Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, February 11-13th, 2021, Lot 931

Exhibited:
Bert Carpenter: A Retrospective, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 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, minor stain to the sheet above the signature, not examined outside the frame.