Creator Record
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Name |
Sublett, Carl |
Dates & places of birth and death |
Johnson County, KY 1919-2008 Union Maine |
Nationality |
American |
Notes |
A Kentucky native, Sublett was a versatile, prolific artist who came to Knoxville in 1954. He became one of the founding members of the University of Tennessee's School of Art, and was a core member of the Knoxville Seven, a group of forward-looking artists active between 1959 and 1965 who were among the first in East Tennessee to experiment with Abstract Expressionism. Sublett found endless inspiration in the Maine coastline, East Tennessee countryside and many other outdoor painting locations, and shifted effortlessly from abstraction to precise realism throughout his long career. By the 1970s turned to watercolor as his primary medium. The Knoxville Museum of Art presented a large exhibition of Sublett's watercolors in 1991. |
