C. Carl Jennings

Cecil Carl Jennings, commonly known as C. Carl Jennings (April 10, 1910 – May 13, 2003), was an American visual artist, metalworker, blacksmith, and educator. He owned El Diablo Forge, later known as C. Carl Jennings Metalsmith in Northern California. Jennings was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1988.

Life and career Cecil Carl Jennings was born on April 10, 1910, in Marion, Illinois. He was a third generation blacksmith; both his father, John Washington Jennings, and his grandfather, William Parish Jennings, were blacksmiths.

He graduated in 1934 from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (later known as California College of the Arts), where he studied under Harry St. John Dixon Jr. and Jacques Schnier. He completed an apprenticeship under John Forester. Jennings was named a Fellow of the American Craft Council in 1988.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

C. Carl Jennings (1965), solo exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Works by C. Carl Jennings (1967), solo exhibitions, Anneberg Gallery, San Francisco, California C. Carl Jennings (1990), solo exhibition, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee

Group exhibitions Metal Arts (1974), Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California; group exhibition featuring artists: Imogene Gieling, Robert R. Coleman, Florence Fullmer Dixon, Tyler James Hoare, C. Carl Jennings, Harriet Johns, Priscilla Kapel, Sandra Lesnewsky, Esther Lewittes, Arthur Lutz, Zella Eckels Marggraf, Richard A. Mayer, George D. McLean, Louis Mueller, E. J. Montgomery, John Nugent, Dalene M. Osterkamp, George Postgate, Merry Renk, Florence Resnikoff, Phyllis H. Smith, Eve Paige Spencer, Naomi Stahl, Martin K. Weber, Anne Wienholt, and Byron August Wilson Contemporary Iron '87 (1988), traveling group exhibition organized by the Louisville Art Gallery in Louisville, Kentucky and the Southern Arts Federation in Atlanta