Lyrical abstraction Carol Haerer
Carol Haerer was born and raised in Kansas and received her B.A. from the Univeristy of Nebraska. She won a Fulbright Scholarship and a Woolley Fellowship allowing her to study, work, and exhibit in Paris in the 1950s. She returned to the U.S. to study at U.C. Berkeley, shortly thereafter co-founding the Berkeley Gallery. She moved to New York in the late 1950s, becoming a prominent New York abstractionist. Carol Haerer exhibited at the San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Dartmouth College, and numerous New York galleries. Haerer's work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Sheldon, the University of Kansas, and many others
