Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000) attended the Cleveland School of Art from 1923 to 1927, before spending the following summer in Capri with Hans Hofmann. From 1929 to 1937, Carter taught at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1938 he left his job as director of the Ohio regional WPA/FAP and joined the teaching staff at the Highly prestigious Carnegie Institute where he worked as a professor, as well as a visiting lecturer and an artist-in-residence at several other universities. Carter's award-winning work is displayed in many museums, including the Whitney, the Metropolitan, the Fogg, the Corcoran, and the Cleveland Museum.