biographie de Samuel Simpson CARR (1837-1908)

Birth place: England

Addresses: Arrived in U.S. by 1865, settling in Brooklyn, NY

Profession: Painter

Studied: evidence suggests he attended a class at Cooper Union, NYC, 1865

Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1871-86, 1891; PAFA, 1881-90; NAD, 1889-94 (as S.S. Carr)

Member: Brooklyn Art Cl. (pres.)

Work: New Britain (CT) Mus. of Amer. Art; Paterson (NJ) Free Public Lib.; Smith Col., Northampton, Mass; Clark Art Inst., Williamstown, Mass

Comments: A genre painter specializing in scenes of children at play and peaceful, bucolic landscapes, often including sheep. He signed as S.S. Carr."

Sources: WW01; Pisano, The Long Island Landscape, n.p.; 300 Years of American Art, 287; Falk, PAFA, vol. 2