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Carmen Louis Cicero (born August 14, 1926) is an American painter from Newark, New Jersey.[1]

Work

Cicero started as an abstract painter and use automatism in his drawings of memories of places.[2] In 1971 a studio fire destroyed the work still in his possession.[2] He moved to New York and started over in a dramatically different figurative style.[3] In the 1990s, Cicero's style changed again, from figurative expressionism to visionary realism reminiscent of magic realism.[4]

Education

Cicero attended the New Jersey State Teachers College (now Kean University) from 1947 to 1951.[1] Cicero studied painting under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell at Hunter College in 1953.[1] He received an MFA from Montclair State University in 1991.[1]

Teaching

Cicero taught painting at Sarah Lawrence College 1959 to 1968.[1] Cicero was a professor of painting at Montclair State University from 1970 through 2001.[1]

Collections

Work by Cicero is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art,[5] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[6] and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[7]

Awards

• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2008[8]
• Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Awards, 2016.[9]

References

Further reading

Cohen, Ronny (January 1985). "Ronny Cohen on Carmen Cicero". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-01-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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