Carlton Lake (journalist)

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Carlton Munro Lake (born September 7, 1915 in Brockton , Massachusetts , † May 5, 2006 in Austin , Texas ) was an American journalist , art critic , curator and art collector .

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Carlton Lake was the son of Elmer and Florence Lake. He graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in Romance languages and literature in 1936 , followed by a master's degree at Columbia University in 1937 and further studies in art history. During the Second World War he was a lieutenant in the Navy. After the war he moved to Paris with his wife Alfreda , where he continued his studies at the Sorbonne and wrote for The Christian Science Monitor , The New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly , among others . In 1964, together with Françoise Gilot , he wrote the book Life with Picasso , which has been translated into many languages, about their long life with the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso . It was followed in 1969 in In Quest of Dali about the artist of surrealism , Salvador Dalí .

Lake lived in Paris from 1950 to 1975, from the following year to 1984 he commuted between Paris and the USA, where he initially lived in Boston . From 1969 to 1975 he was an advisor to the Harry Ransom Center (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center), which is affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin . From 1976 he was curator for the Center's French collection, acting director from 1978 to 1980 and executive curator from 1980 to 2003. For example, he curated the 1976 exhibition Baudelaire to Beckett: A Century of French Art & Literature and 1984 No Symbols Where None Intended , a Samuel Beckett exhibition. In 1991, he co-curated an exhibition on Henri-Pierre Roché . In 1990 his autobiography was published under the title Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist .

Carlton Lake retired in 2003 and died in Austin in 2006.

Carlton Lake Collection

Harry Ransom Center building in Austin

Lake had acquired works of art as early as 1936. There were also documents as background material about the artists. The Harry Ransom Center's Carlton Lake Collection (of which the Carlton Lake Art Collection is a part), donated or acquired by him, contains approximately 350,000 manuscripts, books, music and photographs, mainly of French origin, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries Century.

The Carlton Lake Art Collection consists mainly of works on paper, but also some sculptures and paintings by modern French artists, most of whom had ties to the French literary scene. Dominant examples are Jean Cocteau , Raoul Dufy , Jean Hugo , Valentine Hugo , Berthe Morisot , Odilon Redon and Arthur Rimbaud . The collection also includes works by Pierre Bonnard , Alexander Calder , Paul Cézanne , Pablo Picasso , Auguste Rodin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Megan Barnard (Ed.): Collecting the Imagination: The First Fifty Years of the Ransom Center . Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin 2007, ISBN 978-0292-71489-2 (partly online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from the web links of the short biography from frick.org, the Harry Ransom Center and the obituary
  2. ^ Carlton Lake Collection at Worldcat , worldcat.org, accessed January 12, 2015
  3. ^ An Inventory of his Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
personal data
SURNAME Lake, Carlton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lake, Carlton Munro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, art historian, and curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Brockton , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2006
Place of death Austin , Texas