Artist, Cléanthe Kimball Carr was born on April 9, 1911, in Middletown, New Jersey.
She died on October 1, 2001, in Los Angeles, California.
Her father Eugene Carr, was cartoonist, and her mother, Helen Stilwell was a writer.
Cléanthe Kimball Carr is listed in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
She was an artist and a poet. After boarding school in a Catholic convent in Pennsylvania, Cléanthe studied and participated in art exhibits at Miss Devell’s Preparatory School in New York.
In 1921, one of her poems was published in the Brooklyn Daily Star.
She was known for painting and drawing landscapes and animal art. Later, she became known as a celebrity illustrator. She met and became friends with actor Charlie Chaplin in New York City. An illustration she made of Chaplin was published as a lithograph in an edition of 100. The lithographs are represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.
In the late 1930s, Cléanthe Kimball Carr moved to Los Angeles, California.
An article about Cléanthe Kimball Carr was published in the March 1937 issue of Life magazine.
In 1960, she married automobile executive Samuel Weill, in Monterey, California.
Sales records for art by Cléanthe Kimball Carr were not found.
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