Identifier	SleepyHeadsFredCarlo
Title	Sleepy Heads
Subject	Karamu House Works Progress Administration (U.S.) African Americans Artists
Description	Fred Carlo (1914-1964) was born in the Roaring Third precinct. His talents were nurtured practically from the cradle. His mother was a gifted artist who taught ceramics at Karamu. Carlo became a fine jewelry maker, enamelist and ceramist, but is best known for his sensitive linocut portraits of Depression era Cleveland youngsters. He was a superb graphic artist, able to fill a composition with big, clean, two-dimensional shapes, using minimal means to maximal effect. In 1932, Fred Carlo became the first black artist to exhibit in the International Print Show. He was also among the first Blacks to exhibit in the May Show, where he repeatedly won awards and honorable mentions. He showed prints and ceramics with Karamu Artists, Inc. in New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta. Little is known about him after World War II; but in the '30s and early '40s he played an active role in the development of Karamu.
Creator	Carlo, Fred
Location Depicted	Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	n.d.
Object Type	linocuts
Digital Collection	Jelliffe Collection
Donor	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size: 25,056 k - DPI: 300
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Collection
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=KH
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/record=b2552889~S0

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