Norman Carton

Disciplines: Visual Arts – painting
Disciplines: Visual Arts – painting
Residencies: 1961, 1963
Norman Carton (1908–1980) was an abstract expressionist painter. He exhibited at the Stable Gallery, New York City, and founded an artists’ cooperative gallery in lower Manhattan, placing emphasis on the color, 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 solo exhibitions. Awarded numerous awards, prizes, and fellowships, he also founded a fabric design firm and production company that was featured in Interiors magazine, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Wear Daily. 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 in Paris; the Museum of Modern Art in Paris; and the Museum of Art in St. Denis, France.