David Carr 1915-1968

DAVID CARR was born in London. Studied at Byam Shaw School in the late 1930's then in 1939 he enrolled at the East Anglian School of Art run by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, where fellow students included Lucian Freud and his future wife, Barbara Gilligan. The married couple moved to Starston Hall, Harleston, Norfolk and he had a studio there and in London. He became friends with fellow painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun He became a member of Norfolk Contemporary Art Society and exhibited at the Norfolk and Norwich Art Circle from 1946 and also contributed works to a representative exhibition of British Painters at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1953 and at the Southampton City Art Gallery some years later. In the 1950s Carr began a remarkable series of works depicting man's relationship with machines and industrial production. His work was included in a show at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1953 and in a show at Southampton City Art Gallery. Exhibited at Shaefer Gallery in New York.Retrospective exhibition took place at the Mayor Gallery in 1987. To coincide with the exhibition a monograph 'David Carr, the Discovery of an Artist'by Bryan Robertson & Ronald Alley was published by Quarted Books. In 1997 his work was shown alongside that of his friend Prunela Clough at Austin/Desmond Fine Art.