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Norman Carton

Norman Carton (1908 - 1980) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New York / France.  Norman Carton is known for Abstract expression painting, teaching, fabric design.

Norman Carton was an American artist and educator known for Abstract Expressionist works in oil on canvas. While this was his most recognized style and medium, Carton was primarily a colorist and also worked as a muralist, classically trained portrait and landscape artist, sculptor, theater set and fabric designer, and illustrator as well as in a variety of abstractions.  He has a large museum collection and commercial history, showing in more than 20 solo and 135 group exhibitions."

He was awarded numerous awards, prizes and fellowships for painting. In the 1930s he was part of the WPA creating murals.  In the 1940s, he founded a fabric design and production firm which was featured in Interiors magazine, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Women's Wear Daily.  These were hand-printed fabrics and his clients were Nina Ricci, Hattie Carnegie, Lord & Taylor, and others. In 1962 Norman Carton opened his own Dewey Gallery in NYC.

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