Carroll Dunham valuation
American painter whose work moves between abstraction and figuration, with cartoon-like figures, bathers, trees and wrestlers.
Carroll Dunham was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1949 and grew up in Old Lyme.
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Bio
Carroll Dunham was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1949 and grew up in Old Lyme. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1972, moved to New York the following year and worked as an assistant to the painter Dorothea Rockburne. His first solo exhibition was at Artists Space, New York, in 1981. From 1981 to 1987 he painted on wood veneer and plywood, letting the grain shape the forms, and his work has moved between abstraction and figuration ever since, from biomorphic, cartoon-like shapes to recurring subjects such as hatted men, trees, nude bathers and wrestlers. He also draws, makes prints and monotypes, and has made sculpture. The New Museum, New York, held a mid-career survey in 2002, and the Art Institute of Chicago showed his drawings from 1974 to 2024 in 2026. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate and Museum Ludwig, Cologne. He lives and works in New York and Cornwall, Connecticut.
Dunham has made unique paintings on linen and on wood, a large body of drawings, some sculpture, and prints and monotypes. For a print, note the edition number, the publisher or printer, the paper and the signature. Drawings and other works on paper fade in strong light, and the painted surfaces should be checked for scratches and abrasion. A gallery invoice and the date of the work should go with any piece.
At a glance
- Born
- 5 November 1949, New Haven
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