Carol Haerer

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Carol Haerer
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Carol Haerer in 1974
BornJan 23, 1933 [1]
Salina, Kansas, USA
DiedJuly 20, 2002
Bennington, VT, USA
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sorbonne, Paris; University of California, Berkeley
Known forLyrical abstraction, Minimalism
StyleAbstract painting
SpousePhillip Wofford
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship

Carol Haerer (1933-2002) was an American artist known for abstract painting in the vein of Minimalism and Lyrical abstraction.

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Career

Haerer is best known for her White Painting series of works. [2] Her work was included in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. [3] In 1990, the Rothko Foundation at Artists Space sponsored a three-person exhibition of Ed Clark, Carol Haerer and Ted Kanshare, which was reviewed by Arts Magazine. [4] [5] Her large-scale paintings were often stretched on supports with rounded corners, creating a sense of objecthood with luminous surface quality. [6]

Education

Haerer graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1954, and went on receive a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Sorbonne in Paris for two years. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Masters of Fine Arts. [7]

Awards and honors

Haerer received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Art in 1988. [8]

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, [9] the Brooklyn Museum, [10] the Sheldon Museum of Art, [2] the Spencer Museum of Art, [11] the Museum of Nebraska Art, [12] the Hood Museum, [13] the Zimmerli Art Museum, [14] and other collections. [15] [16]

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