About Lyell Carr
Lived 1857 – 1912 (aged 54–55). Lyell Carr was an American painter.
Lyell E. Carr (1854–1912) was an American painter who painted scenes of African Americans and landscapes in the Deep South, especially Georgia in the 1890s. Carr painted in the Barbizon style.
Biography Carr was born in 1854 in Sandwich, Illinois. His works gained national recognition in 1894 when praised by the magazine The Quarterly Illustrator as a successor to the paintings of Eastman Johnson and Winslow Homer. as well as the Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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Who was Lyell Carr?
American painter, 1857-1912
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Lyell Carr was born in 1857 in Chicago.
When did Lyell Carr die?
Lyell Carr died in 1912 in New York City.
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Lyell Carr was a painter.
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Lyell Carr was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Lyell Carr. https://biography.guide/lyell-carr/
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