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Museums page for Samuel S Carr ((1837 - 1908)), known for Genre-children-beach, bucolic landscape. Showing 6 museum collections and exhibitions.
Samuel S Carr MUSEUMS
1837 England - 1908. Known for: Genre-children-beach, bucolic landscape.
Samuel Carr was a skillful painter of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. In his beach scenes, largely painted between 1879 and 1881, he used certain figures and shapes repeatedly,... Read full biography
Samuel Carr was a skillful painter of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. In his beach scenes, largely painted between 1879 and 1881, he used certain figures and shapes repeatedly, reversing them, turning them this way and that. Often the figures would not even be looking at each other.... Read full biography
Samuel Carr was a skillful painter of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. In his beach scenes, largely painted between 1879 and 1881, he used certain figures and shapes repeatedly, reversing them, turning them this way and that. Often the figures would not even be looking at each other. He created an odd effect that gave the painting an eerie stillness. Typical of the popular tastes of the second half of the nineteenth century, most of Carrs pastoral scenes were filled with cattle,... Read full biography
Samuel Carr was a skillful painter of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. In his beach scenes, largely painted between 1879 and 1881, he used certain figures and shapes repeatedly, reversing them, turning them this way and that. Often the figures would not even be looking at each other. He created an odd effect that gave the painting an eerie stillness. Typical of the popular tastes of the second half of the nineteenth century, most of Carrs pastoral scenes were filled with cattle, sheep or goats, depicting different times of day or different seasons. He and Clinton Loveridge, with whom he shared a studio made their living by painting these very competent and peaceful landscapes. Carrs paintings were considered charming and... Read full biography
Samuel Carr was a skillful painter of children, seashore life and pastoral subjects. In his beach scenes, largely painted between 1879 and 1881, he used certain figures and shapes repeatedly, reversing them, turning them this way and that. Often the figures would not even be looking at each other. He created an odd effect that gave the painting an eerie stillness. Typical of the popular tastes of the second half of the nineteenth century, most of Carrs pastoral scenes were filled with cattle, sheep or goats, depicting different times of day or different seasons. He and Clinton Loveridge, with whom he shared a studio made their living by painting these very competent and peaceful landscapes. Carrs paintings were considered charming and warm, and the depicted activities were always happy ones. Little is actually known of his life. He was born in England in 1837, and came to... Read full biography
Samuel S Carr - Artist Info
About Samuel S Carr: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsHunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado, 8
Madrid, SpainSmith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
7th Floor
Williamstown, MA 01267