Carol Sutton Martin, at the UNCG, Sculpture Exhibition of 4 sculptures, see photos of sculpture below

Weatherspoon Art Gallery,

Now called: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, of the University of North Carolina. http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/

University of North Carolina, Spring Garden at Tate Street

PO Box 26170,

Greensboro, NC, USA,  27402-6170

Artist/Photographer: Robert William Sutton, of Norfolk, Virginia

Title: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit

Location: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus

{also lists Barney Hodes, and Peter Agostini}

Medium: color photographic print

Size: 3" x 4"

Date: 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 68K

Web link: The Weatherspoon Art Museum, of the University of North Carolina. http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/

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Artist/Photographer: Robert William Sutton, of Norfolk, Virginia

Title: Close up of sign only: detail of above; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit

Location: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus

{also lists Barney Hodes, and Peter Agostini}

Medium: color photographic print

Size: 1" by 2"apx.

Date: 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 43K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist/Photographer: Robert William Sutton, of Norfolk, Virginia, my Daddy who had come down from Norfolk, Virginia with Momma to see my show.

Title: Close up of found reflection showing a proud and smiling, Carol Martin {Sutton-Martin} hugging her mother Nancy Chester Sustare Sutton: a close up detail of above; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Notes: Nancy Chester Sustare Sutton was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and attended Sullins College in Bristol, Virginia.

Location: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus

Medium: color photographic print

Size: 5" by 3"apx.

Date: 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 34K

Web link: Weatherspoon Art Gallery at http://www.uncg.edu/wag.html

 

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Artist/Photographer: Robert William Sutton, of Norfolk, Virginia, my Daddy who had come down from Norfolk, Virginia with Momma to see my show.

Title: Carol Martin {Sutton-Martin} in her studio, which was a converted rear room of a large rental home.

Notes: Carol with her collected window objects, antique inkwell, her fish tank made by adding a sand blasted hole for a filter.

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Location: 601 Church Street, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, lower floor right side, rear of large rental home.

Today: Current: 601 N Church St,Greensboro, NC 27401,USA, near Fisher Park

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I learn today, June 17, 2007, via a www.google.com satellite image; that I lived less than a mile away from where my Grandparents and my mother lived in the 1930's. From Ancestry.com census data: USA CENSUS; 1930: 22 Apr 1930,

15th CENSUS, Source Citation: Year: 1930; Exact date: 22 Apr 1930, Census Place:Greensboro, NC; Roll: 1694; Page: 30B; Enumeration District: 12; Image: 724.0.:

listed in error as; Sustaw instead of Sustare.

Name: B L Sustaw, Occupation: Agent; Real Estate; (This would be Beverly T. Sustare

Name: B L Sustaw, Age 40, Nannie W Sustaw, 38 (This is Nannie Williams Sustare, age 38 and mother of four children, three sons and an only daughter, Chester Sustare (Nancy Chester Sustare, my Mother.)

Beverly A Sustaw, 16, John W Sustaw, 13, Chester Sustaw 9, George Sustaw 7- at 625 Summit, Gilmer Twp, Greensboro City, North Carolina, USA, Home Value The Highest On - Census Page: $18,000. B. T. Was A Lawyer Then neighbor 708 Summit, W. A. Knight, owner home worth $10,000.

Today: in google the address is as: 625 Summit Ave, Greensboro, NC 27405, USA

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See: my SISTARE and SUSTARE genealogy pages:

Nancy Chester Sustare Sutton and her namesake, her uncle Chester Clay Williams, who died in WWI; http://www.geocities.com/clsutton45/nancy_c_sustare_sutton.html

+

and a photograph of Nancy Chester Sustare. as a girl while living at 625 Summit Ave, Greensboro, NC 27405, USA

can be seen on this page; Barnum Alexander Sustare+wife Sarah Amanda Ferguson,his twin James Ervin Sistar+Mary Jane Fergerson. Scroll down to see image.
 http://www.carolsutton.net/sustare/sistare_ferguson_photo.html

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Mother's Parents: Beverly Townsend Sustare and Nannie Clara WIlliams: start with Link: Beverly Townsend Sustare -http://www.carolsutton.net/sustare/beverly_t_sustare.html

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and also see; Photograph of Nannie Clara Williams Sustare. "Nancy" and her daughter Nancy Chester Sustare

http://www.carolsutton.net/williams/williams_clara_nannie.html

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Medium: a polaroid photographic print

Size: 5" by 3"apx.

Date: 1968 or 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 68K

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Artist/Photographer: Robert William Sutton, of Norfolk, Virginia, my Daddy who had come down from Norfolk, Virginia with Momma to see my show.

Title: Carol Martin {Sutton-Martin} in her studio, which was a converted rear room of a large rental home.

Notes: Carol in her studio. Cloth pins for hanging up her silk screen prints to dry are attached overhead to the low ceiling, silk screen ink rollers hang at the edge of the window, the small table I made myself and painted a bright pink then a lilac violet. My fish tank was made by adding a sand blasted hole for a side filter was the home of my ghost fish from the Amazon River. I was wearing fishnet hose with high black boots, a black skirt, and sweater, with a long collar blouse popular in the 1960's, with an antique inexpensive but colorful glass stone brooch.

Location: 601 Church Street, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, lower floor right side, rear of large rental home.

Medium: a Polaroid photographic print

Size: 5" by 3"apx.

Date: 1968 or 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 60K

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Text excerpt:

 

CAROL SUTTON, formerly named, Carol MARTIN, {a.k.a. Carol Sutton Martin} receives the cat called "Pip" as a gift from Walter Barker

 

Place: Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina

Greensboro is the birth place of her mother, Nancy Chester Sustare, November 17, 1920. Namesake: named after her uncle, Sgt. Chester Clay Williams (117) , Engineers, Rainbow Division, of Hickory, North Carolina, who was killed two years prior to her birth date. Sighted for gallantry in action in Champagne- killed near Ligney, France, October 1, 1918, World War

 

Life events at that time: Carol Martin is a student and an assistant professor of art at: University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

 

In 1969, she received a Master of Fine Arts Degree and the Chancellor's Purchase Award for her sculpture from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. {link: http://www.uncg.edu }Carol's 'MFA Thesis Exhibit' , April 10 - 26, 1969, was held a the Weatherspoon Art Gallery, on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, N.C.

 

Working along side her long time friend and fellow artist and alike minded companion Kent English, while at UNC; who now is CEO of English Signs of Salisbury, Maryland. Carol Martin moves from Greensboro, North Carolina to Toronto (an inland port), Ontario, Canada in 1970, sponsored on her immigration papers at the border by her good friend and former next door neighbor from Plum Street in Richmond, Virginia, Djénane Lemmon. In 1977, she is divorced from Dennis Stillwell Martin and had her name changed back to Carol Lorraine Sutton at the time of the divorce. In 1977, Carol marries André Joseph Lucien Fauteux, a Canadian sculptor. They are still married in 2003, and are parents of two children.

 

Carol Martin's {nee Sutton}, UNCG professors were: Date: 1968, 1969, 1970.

{alphabetical}

Stephen Antonakas, SCULPTOR, CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, {listed in ,WHO'S WHO in AMERICAN ART, -1995-96 Edition, page 33, Biographical Information: Born: Greece, Nov 1, 1926; US citizen. Media : Neon. Mailing Address: 435 West Broadway, New York, NY, USA, 10012

Walter Barker, {subject of this cat story}Biographical Information: {see section on BARKER -Pip the cat, Carol Sutton, Walter Barker, Max Beckman --and Walter Barker[1921- -], {portrait of wife}Untitled,#12, pencil} and Walter Barker[1921- -], {portrait of baby}Untitled,#16,

 

Gilbert Carpenter [Carptenter, Gilbert Frederick (Bert), Painter, Educator, listed in ,WHO'S WHO in AMERICAN ART, -1995-96 Edition, page 189. Biographical Information: Born: Billings, Montana, July 14, 1920. Teaching : Instr art; prof art & head dept, Univ NC, Greensboro 64-74; pro art, Weatherspoon Gallery, 74-89. Dealer: Joy Tash Gallery Scottsdale AZ; Lee Hansley Gallery Raleigh , NC. Mailing Address: 2505 West Market ST., Greensboro, NC, USA, 27403.]

Will Insley of New York City, Painter, DRAFTSMAN, {Educator}, listed in ,WHO'S WHO in AMERICAN ART, -1995-96 Edition, page 581. Biographical Information: Born: Indianapolis, Indiana, Oct 15, 1929. Study: Amherst College, BA, Harvard Univ Grad Sch Design , MA (archit).

Teaching: {Instr. art, UNCG 1968-1969- not listed in this Who's Who edition},Dealer: Max Protetch, 560 Broadway, New York, NY, 10012, Annemarie Verna Rontgenstrasse, 44 8005, Zurich, Switzerland. Mailing Address: 231 Bowery, New York, NY, USA, 10002.

 

My Thesis Advisor for my UNCG Masters Degree was the writer -Arturo Vivante, Biographical Information: born 1923, in Rome, Italy, and lives in America. Vivante's books written while I was at UNCG, a time span during 1968 -1969 were: The French Girls of Killmi (short stories), Little Brown; 1967 and Doctor Giovanni (novel), Little, Brown; 1969. I do remember reading A Goodly Babe (novel, 1966). Vivante writes in English.

 

Carol Sutton-Martin's MEMORIES OF AUTURO VIVANTE: Vivante has been on the faculty of several American universities and was at University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina, during 1968 and 1969, when I was earning my Masters Degree. I met with Arturo Vivante in his office on several occasions and read his books, which I liked very much. Vivante's writing is filled with humanity, touching observations, and poetic recall. We mostly discussed my artwork and his writing. Vivante always a gentleman and once pulled out his lower desk draw where he kept a bottle of wine and a couple of wine glasses, after all he is Italian, to offer me a glass of wine. Not on every visit, just occasionally. At the end of the semester it came time for my thesis examination; which took place in an open area of The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, where I had set up my four sculpture works. The grouping was a loose semi circle of chairs with the all male faculty and me a young woman, facing them. I was somewhat nervous yet ready to articulate and defend my Masters Degree Presentation. Arturo Vivante could sense my nervousness and to break off the harsh questioning by the professors offered me a cigarette. He took his time pulling one cigarette slightly out of the pack and extending the pack out to me, waiting for me to reach for it. Then he pulled out a pack of matches and lit one and slowly held it so that I could light my cigarette; all the time the other professors were waiting, chomping at the bit, so to speak, ready to pounce the next question on me - but Professor Vivante had broken the pattern, had paused the moment, and his delay and kind gesture helped me to keep a cool demeanor {stay calm}, during my Masters exam questioning session. I could sense the irritation of the other men, almost like they were thinking, 'Oh brother, get on with it." It was almost as if Arturo was silently saying to me, 'don't worry, you are doing fine.' The funny thing is that to this day, I can't recall exactly who the other men were; and rather, I only remember Arturo Vivante and his kindness to me.

:University Press of New England | The Tales of Arturo Vivante

The Tales of Arturo Vivante Vivante, Arturo. Mary Kinzie, selected and introd by.

Sheep Meadow Press distributed by University Press of New England 264 pp. ...

www.upne.com/0-935296-91-3.html - 6k

 

Arturo Vivante books on amazon.com : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Arturo%20Vivante

 

 

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Born in Rome in 1923, Arturo Vivante graduated from McGill University (Montreal)

before returning to the University of Rome to pursue the study of medicine. ...

www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr5/vivante/bio.html - 3k -

 

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David Kubal on Arturo Vivante interview The loss of childhood, along with the pleasure

garden provided by the mother, is the unifying theme of Arturo Vivante's ...

www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr14/kabul/interview.html - 4k -

 

AddALL.com - Arturo Vivante , Arturo Vivante: Italian Poetry, an ...

... Italian Poetry, an Anthology From the Beginnings to the Present Bilingual Edited

by: Arturo Vivante Translated by: Arturo Vivante Binding: Paperback, 188 pages ...

www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0962030511.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

 

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Excerpt biographical notes:

SUBJECT: silk screen portfolio of prints titled The Artist As A Young Woman - Picabia.: Jacob Kainen Collection, Smithsonian, Collector Ruthie Julian.

 

Age twenty-two, her work enters the Jacob Kainen Collection, who is the curator of prints and drawings for the Smithsonian, in Washington, D.C. , (She was told by her dealer that this was for The National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, D. C., but did not learn until decades later when her book was published, while checking for copyright, that her work was bought by Jacob Kainen for his own personal collection.) with a portfolio of 16 serigraphs, titled The Artist As A Young Woman - Picabia. A note in my diary of 1969, 1970, notes that Rudi Julien bought a portfolio of silkscreen prints from the Contemporary Art Gallery of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Almost as a miracle, I heard about Ms. Julian, in 2002 via an email from Bob Cheek.

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From: "Bob Cheek" 

Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 18:19:39 -0400

To: Carol Sutton

Subject: Ruthie Julian

 

Carol: My name is Robert Cheek. I'm an art dealer and appraiser from Durham, North Carolina. I have been asked by Ruthie's son to evaluate her art holdings. Ruthie has, at age 93, been moved to an assisted living arrangement and her condo and belongings are being sorted out. Among the many art works in her holdings is a set of 14 silkscreen prints you did in 1967 while at RPI and entitled "The Artist As a Young Woman". I assume Ruthie bought the set from you when you had your show at the old Gallery of Contemporary Art (now South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art - SECCA) in 1968 although it may have been a bit earlier or later. You may not recall meeting/knowing Ruthie but I am sure you remember that fine suite of images.They were done in an edition of 50 and the set Ruthie bought was #6, which you kindly dedicated to her. I wonder if you could provide me a figure, either as your estimate or based on secondary market experience, as to the current retail worth of the set, please? It is my policy to always defer to/confer with living artists when they can be referenced. If you are not comfortable providing the estimate perhaps you could steer me to one of your dealers who has experience with your graphics. You may be pleased to know that of the several hundred items in her holdings Ruthie had a particularly strong affinity for your set and held on to it all these years. It is still in the original portfolio, unframed as was most of the material she collected. She simply never had room enough to exhibit all the items but loved browsing back over the pieces from time to time. She is unaware of your great success over the years but always proclaimed you to be "...one of the most precocious student artists to ever come through here". How right she was. Thank you for considering this request. I look forward to your response. Robert Cheek http://www.artnet.com/robertcheek.html

 

Jacob Kainen Collection Smithsonian, curator-prints & drawings -served for 20 years as curator of the Smithsonian Institution's graphic arts division, and six years as curator of prints and drawings, National Collection of Fine Arts., Washington, D.C., USA -Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, gifts from Jacob and Ruth Cole Kainen.

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National Museum of American Art Washington, D.C., USA, Address: 8th & G St NW

Now a part of the Smithsonian American Art Collection.

1968.144.15A_1d.jpg - Lead text page Artist As A Young Woman- Picabia, portfolio - 1967 -1968, by Carol Sutton-Martin-Smithsonian American Art Collection

Carol Sutton Martin- Smithsonian American Art Collection: http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=3133images online

1968.144.11_1d.jpg- oval-penis-frog-legs and its shawdow, silkscreen print, Artist As A Young Woman- Picabia, portfolio - 1967 -1968, by Carol Sutton-Martin-Smithsonian American Art Collection

Silkscreen portfolio of 16 prints-'Artist As A Young Woman-Picabia'-1967-68; under the name of Carol Sutton-Martin; images online

ALL 16 Silksreen Prints NOW ONLINE: http://americanart.si.edu/search/search_artworks1.cfm?StartRow=1&ConID=3133&format=short

purchased by Jacob Kainen from 'The Gallery of Contemporary Art', now called SECCA, {http://www.secca.org/},

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1968, under the Director Ted Potter.]

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Artist/Photographer: probably Kent English, [Kent is close friend and fellow art student who lived just about ten houses South across Floyd Avenue. Kent was in the same classes as Dennis and I. See the scan below of him and the portrait I did of him. Please notice the edge of my artwork construction: 2 ovals and 2 frog legs at right edge.]

Title: Carol and Dennis Martin outside their side entrance to 100 Plum Street, Fan District, Richmond, Virginia.

NOTES: Next to one of Carol's construction acrylic artworks that became a model for one of her 16 seri-graph prints in her BFA, thesis portfolio; "The Artist As a Young Woman, Picabia" (One copy of this serigraphs edition of 75; each portfolio has 16 prints; sells to Ruthie Julian.)

Notes: Carol with a sunlight set up to photograph her artwork. Doing a bit of a twirl.

Location: 100 Plum Street, Fan District, Richmond, Virginia. , lower floor Fan District townhouse rental home on the corner of Floyd Avenue and Plum Streets, next to her neighbor, Djenane Mackellar Lemmon, orginally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada; who lived next door in 102 Plum Street.

Medium: a Ectachrome slide

Date: 1966

Collection: Private Collection.

file size: 187K

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(The Artist as a Young Woman, portfolio)

1967

Carol Sutton Martin

Smithsonian American Art Museum

1968.144.5

Carol Sutton Martin- Smithsonian American Art Collection: http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=3133images online

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Artist/Photographer: Carol Sutton-Martin, [Kent is close friend and fellow art student who lived just about ten houses South across Floyd Avenue. Kent was in the same classes as Dennis and I. Kent and the portrait I did of him. Please notice the edge of my artwork construciton: 2 ovals and 2 frog legs at right edge.]

Title: Kent English and his portrait by Carol Sutton-Martin.

 

Notes: Photo was taken outside the side entrance to 100 Plum Street, Fan District, Richmond, Virginia.

Location: 100 Plum Street, Fan District, Richmond, Virginia. , lower floor Fan District townhouse rental home on the corner of Floyd Avenue and Plum Streets,

Medium: oil on canvas,

Date: 1966

Collection: Carol Sutton

file size: 51K of a Ectachrome slide

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Edited:REPLY:

June 17, 2002

 

Dear Bob Cheek,

 

What a wonderful surprise to receive your amazing praise filled email about you friend and client Ruthie Julian. I was so touched that I called up my husband and read him the whole thing. It was so wonderful to read that Ruthie is alive at age 93 and remembers me. I was so happy to read that she bought my portfolio; "The Artist As a Young Woman, Picabia" about 31 years ago.

 

In those days I went by my first married hyphenated name of : Carol Sutton-Martin. { then, age 19, 1965, married to Dennis Stillwell Martin }, but after my divorce (1975), I had my name changed back to my maiden surname of SUTTON and subsequent second marriage in 1977 to André Joseph Lucien Fauteux, I go by the name: Carol Sutton.

 

>You may not recall meeting/knowing Ruthie but I am sure you remember that fine suite of images.

 

To be completely honest I do not remember meeting Ruthie Julian; and indeed may not have met her in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I did not have a car in those days and just traveled there a few times, once to set up my show in the then called [1968] Gallery of Contemporary Art, now called as you inform me; (now South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art - SECCA) and on subsequent visits to sign some of my portfolios of silk screens and to pick them up finally {those that were unsold} at a later date.

 

I indeed do very well remember that portfolio; "The Artist As a Young Woman, Picabia" and those images. It took me over 2 years work to complete the whole portfolio, which I started out printing 1967 in my 100 North Plum Street ground floor apartment, in Richmond, Virginia, in my kitchen on my dining table, that I converted to a silk-screen table and had the whole kitchen hung up with clothes line ropes and strung with close -pins, on which I hung my wet silk-screens to dry; and then in 1968 finished the edition{ about the last six prints in the edition}, in my 601 Church Street #2 apartment, home in Greensboro, North Carolina, where I lived for three years from 1967 until 1970, when I migrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I loved those images and did paintings of many of them at that time in both Richmond and then in Greensboro. Greensboro, by the way is where my sweet Momma , Nancy Chester SUSTARE, now deceased, who was the daughter of Beverly Townsend Sustare and Nannie Clara Williams, came was born and raised.

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Group & Exhibitions Shows

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DATE: 1967 , 1968, 1969 PLACE: Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, U.S.A.

 

 

1967 Richmond Professional Institute, now Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.,

(sculpture, drawings, prints, and paintings)

 

1968 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (sculpture and silk-screen prints)

 

1969 "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.,

(2 works, black paper 3' x 5 2/3" rolled, pinned & clipped with paper clips, 1969)

 

1969 "Montpelier Farm Stable Show of Eight Artists", Upper Marlboro, Maryland, ( sculpture & paper works)

listed on page: http://www.carolsutton.net/groupshows.exb.html

 

1969 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., (sculpture)

listed on page:

http://www.carolsutton.net/soloshows.html

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I do remember taking some of my silk-screen portfolios there on consignment. The then {1967-1968} gallery director and curator of Gallery of Contemporary Art, now called SECCA, was a very nice man. Do you know his name??? I even tried to take a quick look into my file cabinets to see if I could find his name or correspondence, which I know I kept and it is buried somewhere in my papers/ maybe in the basement. I tend to try and save all related papers and documents. Anyway, this director asked me to sign a number of portfolios that he was successful in placing with clients / collectors. And this may be how I came to sign the one to Ruthie Julian. Also, I could, now that I think about it; have met Ruthie at the opening of my 1968 exhibition in Winston-Salem.

 

It is so touching to me to read all this about how she loved to look through them and Ruthie's love of my images. -Your special message to me. It certainly made my day. Please give both Ruthie Julian and her son my kindest regards and tell Ruthie that I am thinking of her as one astute and inspired collector. I had a look at your find page in the artnet.com site and thought it was very good.

http://www.artnet.com/robertcheek.html

I am happy to give you a value. Please advise me as to the status you desire.

 

Most kind regards,

Carol

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FOLLOW UP: FOUND DIARY ENTRY, by searching through my old diaries which I had in the basement:and find one for 1969, did not find a 1968., February 5, 2003,

My 1969 diary was: The Khamsa of Nizami,{translation of Persian verses} put out by The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

My diary entry for Saturday, 15, March 1969: " WENT TO WINSTON-SALEM. GOT CHECK FOR $133.33 sale of'ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN' TO MRS. IRA JULIAN."

My diary entry for Saturday, 29, March, 1969: " TO WINSTON-SALEM & SET UP PIECE. AFTERNOON. POLISH ONE BALL"

My diary entry for Tuesday, 15, April, 1969: " 7:30 NIGHT. SEE IF THESIS COMMITTEE CAN MEET, OR DAY. Passed Orals." [thesis exam]

 

at the rear of the book I wrote out about three pages of addresses: among those was the Director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, now called SECCA,

TED POTTER, DIRECTOR

THE GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

500 SOUTH MAIN STREET

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. 27101

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NOTE:I can find no address for Walter Barker.

My diary entry for Monday, 22, September 1969: " TAKE PIP TO VET.COPELAND. 273-9659, ASHEBORO ST, PLEASANT GARDEN & LIBERTY ROAD."

 

 

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EXCERPT FROM BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:

 

In 1969, she received a Master of Fine Arts Degree and the Chancellor's Purchase Award for her sculpture from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.{Web link: http://www.uncg.edu.html } Web link: Weatherspoon Art Gallery at http://www.uncg.edu/wag.html. Working along side her long time friend and fellow artist and alike minded companion Kent English, while at UNC; who now is CEO of English Signs of Salisbury, Maryland.

Her UNCG professors are Will Insley of New York City, Walter Barker, Gilbert Carpenter, Stephen Antonakas, thesis advisor, writer -Arturo Vivante.

 

She moves from Greensboro, North Carolina to Toronto (an inland port), Ontario, Canada in 1970, sponsored on her immigration papers at the border by her good friend and former next door neighbor from Plum Street in Richmond, Virginia, Djénane Lemmon. Djénane Lemmon is the reason Carol moves to Canada for it was Djénane who provided Carol with her first Canadian exposure in 1965 when she and Dennis went to Toronto and Shanty Bay, Ontario to visit with her at her city home and her Stonywood estate. Carol originally wished to move to New York City, experience it and savor it's art museums and galleries and then to move out after two years and live in Vermont or somewhere in New England. But her husband Dennis did not want to move to New York City, so the next choice in major cities that were east coast oriented were Atlanta,Georgia and Toronto, Ontario. Carol thought these would be the cities that would change within the next decades and offered bright futures. Toronto was chosen over Atlanta, really as a choice of city and not as a choice of country. When Djénane moves back to Canada a few years later, they become fast friends once more. In Toronto she soon meets new music composers, including David Jaeger, James Montgomery, Larry Lake and David Grimes; makes moving stage sculpture and light work for computer synthesized sound for The Canadian Electronic Ensemble and does a joint work , 'Fancy', with David Jaeger for The University of Toronto. Sally and David Jaeger are close friends of Carol's and they hold the largest private collection of Carol Sutton's art outside of her own collection. Sally Jaeger is a professional story-teller. Carol Sutton Martin separates from Dennis Stillwell Martin on July 4, 1971(Independence Day) and late divorces resuming her maiden name. Three years later she meets her future husband, André Fauteux, a Toronto sculptor, who is listed in The Canadian Encyclopedia. Ms. Sutton and André Joseph Lucien Fauteux, marry on June 25, 1977 and have two children, a girl, Viva-Laura Claire Sutton-Fauteux, born on June 12, 1980, and a boy, Yale Quentin Sutton-Fauteux, born on March 9, 1983.

 

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The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, WAG Museum, MFA Thesis Exhibit of Carol Martin, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1969

 

4 sculptures

Web link:

The Weatherspoon Art Museum, of the University of North Carolina. http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/

University of North Carolina, Spring Garden at Tate Street

PO Box 26170,

Greensboro, NC, USA,  27402-6170

 

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# 1.

 

Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

Title: Model, 3 tri- sided Lilac Cones, and 3 looped line

Notes:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Location of model parts: disassembled

Medium of sculpture: architectural plexiglass and wood cabinet for other projects. Cones made of paper/wood/ line of wire and plastic over coat.

Medium of photograph:a Ectachrome slide

Date: 1968

Collection: Private Collection. Owned by artist, I still have the parts of the model but have used the model architectural plexiglass and wood cabinet for other projects.

file size: 187K

Model size: about 4 by 3 feet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

 

Title: Three 4' color tri-sided cones attached to the wall 10' off the floor by one of their three equal points and one colored transparent surface three looped line which rests on the floor space of apx. 16' x 15' x 12' tall

 

Notes: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

 

Location: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Campus

Photo Medium: a Ectachrome slide

Art Medium: Wood, steel cones, looped line on floor made of steel, with a transparent green garden hose feed over the steel.

Size: about 16 feet long, x 15 feet wide x 12 feet tall.

Date: 1967

Collection:

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, WAG, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1969 acquired

file size: 187K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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# 2.

 

Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

Title: [CLOSE UP DETAIL:] A color line in fold of wall and floor, functioning with and determining boundaries for color pyramid & cluster of no-color clear spheres forming oval around pyramid.

Notes:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Location of model parts: disassembled

Medium of sculpture: line: made of steel. Pyramid made of wood. Spheres made of cast polyester resin.

Medium of photograph:a Ectachrome slide

Date: begun in 1968 and finished in 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

Size: line: is 13 feet and 4 " long, pyramid is 18" high, spheres are 5 " in diameter.

file size: 187K

Notes: Each one of these balls which I cast in the sculpture studio sand pit, took me a minimum of 8 hours to polish with electric buffers attached to my portable drill.. I think there were originally 22 spheres in the exhibited work. As a testament to the honesty of the students of UNCG, no student or anyone else for that matter ever stole a ball , nor did they disturb my delicate other piece in the show -'Four layers of 16" x 11" no-color translucent polyethylene plastic, each layer alternated' with four layers of apx. 24 small silver spheres . Unit rests on floor.' When I moved to Toronto, the movers stole 4 to 6 of my spheres. But I think I still have enough left to set up the piece. C.L.S.

 

 

 

 

 

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# 2.

 

Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

Title: [FULL VIEW OF work: ]A color line in fold of wall and floor, functioning with and determining boundaries for color pyramid & cluster of no-color clear spheres forming oval around pyramid.

Notes:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Location of model parts: disassembled

Medium of sculpture: line: made of steel. Pyramid made of wood. Spheres made of cast polyester resin.

Medium of photograph:a Ectachrome slide

Date: begun in 1968 and finished in 1969

Collection: Private Collection.

Size: line: is 13 feet and 4 " long, pyramid is 18" high, spheres are 5 " in diameter.

file size: 187K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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# 3. The 3rd work was:

'Four layers of 16' x 11" no-color translucent polyethylene plastic, each layer alternated' with four layers of apx. 24 small silver spheres . Unit rests on floor.

date: 1969

Four layers

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Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

Title: [FULL VIEW OF work: ] Four layers of 16' (feet) x 11" (inches) no-color translucent polyethylene plastic, each layer alternated' with four layers of apx. 24 small silver spheres . Unit rests on floor.'

Notes:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Location of model parts: disassembled

Medium of sculpture: plastic sheets: a translucent polyethylene plastic material; 24 small silver coated glass balls. (These were Christmas decoration ornaments with the loop removed, and hook removed.)

Medium of photograph: a Ectachrome slide, file size of whole work in site is 43k : file size of detail is 51K,

Date: begun in 1968 and shown in 1969

Collection: Private Collection of the artist.

Size: 16' (feet) x 11" (inches)

 

 

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# 4. The 4th work was: WELL WORK:

Large amount of no-color transparent water tower molds ( Apx. 580 Corning glass pieces) placed randomly on floor within selected space and large amount of rope ( 1,830 feet of Hemp rope) and altered enclosed space.

date:conceived in December of 1968, executed and finished in May/April 1969

 

Artist/Photographer:Carol Sutton-Martin

Title: Large amount of no-color transparent water tower molds ( Apx. 580 Corning glass pieces) placed randomly on floor within selected space and large amount of rope ( 1,830 feet of Hemp rope) and altered enclosed space.

Notes:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Carol Martin, MFA Thesis Exhibit.

Location of model parts: disassembled

Medium of sculpture: Apx. 580 Corning glass pieces shaped like water-towers, note that I ordered these both to make this work and to use to cast the balls/ spheres in the above work, #2; titled: A color line in fold of wall and floor, functioning with and determining boundaries for color pyramid & cluster of no-color clear spheres forming oval around pyramid., and rope {1, 830 feet of hemp rope}. I order the glass molds from Corning Glass in New York State, I bought the hemp rope locally in Greensboro.

Medium of photograph: a Ectachrome slide, file size K,

Date: concept begun in 1968 and shown in 1969

Collection: Private Collection of the artist.

Size: about 15 feet deep by 30 feet by 25 feet.

 

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