John Carroll
A Guggenheim-winning modernist who led painting at Detroit's Society of Arts and Crafts.
This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.
Carroll was born in Wichita and raised in San Francisco. After a 1927 Guggenheim Fellowship and teaching at the Art Students League, he was chosen in 1930 to lead the painting department at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, where he taught for more than a decade.
He became known for romantic modernist portraits, especially of women. His work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and the Detroit Institute of Arts.