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Harry Carnohan

Harry P. Carnohan (1904 - 1969) was active/lived in Texas, California.  Harry Carnohan is known for Landscape, figure, and portrait painter, graphics.

Landscape, figure, portrait painter and graphic artist Harry Peyton Carnohan was born on April 18, 1904 in Milford, Texas, moving to Dallas around 1910. He studied privately with Vivian Aunspaugh and Frank Reaugh before attending the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Carnohan then spent five years in Paris, Florence, and Rome, one of them studying with Andre Lhote. He financed his sojourn in Europe on a foreign study scholarship, the Bryan Lathrop Traveling Fellowship, in 1926 from the Art Institute that was supplemented by a Guggenheim Fellowship. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, in 1927.

Carnohan had a varied career as a painter portrait, landscape and figure; a muralist, graphic artist, writer, critic and teacher. His media were oil, watercolor, pastel and tempera.

Back in Dallas in 1930, Carnohan was active in the Dallas Artists League, and the Dallas Nine southwestern regionalist artists. He was more open, at that time, to European modernist styles li   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3921 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Harry Carnohan


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Texas Before 1940
Art Association
  • Dallas Nine
  • Lone Star Printmakers
Art Teacher
  • Andre Lhote
  • Frank Reaugh
Art School
  • Columbia University Art Department, Teacher
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Bryan Lathrop Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Mural Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Annual Texas Artists Exhibition
  • Texas Centennial Exposition
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Allied Artists of America
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons
  • Salon d'Automne

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