Tag: Norman Carton

The abstract expressionist artist Norman Carton, (1908 – 1980) was born in Pennsylvania but worked in New York and studied and exhibited in Paris. He exhibited at the Stable Gallery, New York City and founded an artists’ cooperative gallery in lower Manhattan, the emphasis being on the colour, texture and materiality of paint. Carton was a painter’s painter who, while devoting his life to Education and lecturing in the Arts, produced a large body of work. During a long artistic career he showed in more than 70 group exhibitions and had more than 20 one-man exhibitions.. Awarded numerous awards, prizes and fellowships, he also founded a fabric design firm and Production Co. which was featured in Interiors magazine, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily. In 1962 Norman Carton opened his own Gallery, the Dewey Gallery, in New York City. His work is represented in over 200 private collections throughout the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art; the Albright-Knox Gallery; the Norfolk Museum of Art; the Chrysler Art Museum, the Jewish Museum, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, Paris; and the Museum of Art, St. Denis, France.