Carol Haerer
{{short description|American artist (1933-2002)}}
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| name = Carol Haerer
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| caption = Carol Haerer in 1974
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| birth_date = January 23, 1933{{cite web|title=Carol Haerer|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2977080/carol-haerer-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|website=Biographies of Notable People|publisher=My Heritage|accessdate=13 July 2017}}
| birth_place = Salina, Kansas, USA
| death_date = {{death date and age|2002|7|20|1933|1|23}}
| death_place = Bennington, Vermont, USA
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| nationality = American
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| education = University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sorbonne, Paris; University of California, Berkeley
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| known_for = Lyrical abstraction, Minimalism
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| style = Abstract painting
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Carol Haerer (1933-2002) was an American artist known for abstract painting in the vein of Minimalism and Lyrical abstraction.
Career
Haerer is best known for her White Painting series of works.{{cite book|last1=Siedell|first1=Daniel|last2=Eldredge|first2=Charles|title=Carol Haerer: The White Paintings|date=1998|publisher=Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska|location=Lincoln|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=sheldonpubs|accessdate=13 July 2017}} Her work was included in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.{{cite book|title=Lyrical Abstraction: Exhibition, April 5 through June 7, 1970|date=1970|publisher=Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Michigan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU9QAAAAMAAJ&q=carol+haerer|accessdate=13 July 2017}} In 1990, the Rothko Foundation at Artists Space sponsored a three-person exhibition of Ed Clark, Carol Haerer and Ted Kanshare, which was reviewed by Arts Magazine.{{cite journal|last1=Art Digest Company|title=Reviews|journal=Arts Magazine|date=1990|volume=64|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llLrAAAAMAAJ&q=carol+haerer+arts+magazine|accessdate=14 July 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Artists Space|title=Ed Clark, Carol Haerer, Ted Kurahara|url=http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/ed-clark-carol-haerer-ted-kurahara|website=Artists Space Exhibitions|accessdate=14 July 2017}} Her large-scale paintings were often stretched on supports with rounded corners, creating a sense of objecthood with luminous surface quality.{{cite journal|last1=Fitzsimmons|first1=James|title=Review: Carol Haerer|journal=Art International|date=1974|volume=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkvrAAAAMAAJ&q=carol+haerer|accessdate=13 July 2017}}
Education
Haerer graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1954, and went on receive a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Sorbonne in Paris for two years. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a Masters of Fine Arts.{{cite web|title=Star Alumna: Carol Haerer|url=https://axokk.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/star-alumna-artist-carol-haerer/|website=Kappa Kappa Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega|date=13 January 2011 |publisher=Lincoln, NE|accessdate=13 July 2017}}
Awards and honors
Collections
Her work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{cite web|title=Carol Haerer|url=http://collection.whitney.org/search/carol%20haerer|website=Collections|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|accessdate=13 July 2017}} the Brooklyn Museum,{{cite web |title=Untitled, Carol Haerer |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/104362 |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |accessdate=1 August 2020}} the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art,{{cite web|title=Carol Haerer, The White Paintings|url=https://spencerartapps.ku.edu/collection-search#/artist/17395|accessdate=1 August 2020}} the Museum of Nebraska Art,{{cite web |title=Carol Haerer: MONA collection artwork |date=6 December 2016 |url=https://mona.unk.edu/mona/carol-haerer-mona-collection/ |publisher=Museum of Nebraska Art |accessdate=1 August 2020}} the Hood Museum,{{cite web |title=Carol Haerer, Untitled |url=https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/d.2003.23.2 |publisher=The Hood Museum |accessdate=1 August 2020}} the Zimmerli Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Sky Holder |url=https://zimmerli.emuseum.com/objects/31947/sky-holder;jsessionid=BFCFD167D5D4259204FF0FBFD20F6334 |publisher=Zimmerli Art Museum |accessdate=1 August 2020}} and other collections.{{cite news|title=Deaths: Haerer, Carol|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/classified/paid-notice-deaths-haerer-carol.html|accessdate=13 July 2017|work=The New York Times|date=July 31, 2002}}{{cite book|last1=Geske|first1=Norman A.|last2=Janovy|first2=Karen O.|title=The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery|date=1988|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=9780803221338|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gK-t4316J4C&q=carol+haerer|accessdate=13 July 2017}}
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Category:University of California alumni
Category:University of Nebraska alumni
Category:University of Paris alumni