CARL ROBERT HOLTY (1900-1973)
Circus Forms
signed and dated 'CR Holty/1938' (on the reverse)
oil on gessoed masonite
60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1938.

The artist.
Mari and James A. Michener, Austin, Texas, gift from the above, 1966.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1968.

S.M. Kootz, New Frontiers in American Painting, New York, 1943, p. xvi, no. 43.
E.A. Powell III, The James A. Michener Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting, Austin, Texas, 1977, p. 163, illustrated.
A.D. Carlozzi, K. Baum, eds., Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900, Austin, Texas, 2006, p. 364, fig. 5, illustrated.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Carl Holty, September 1-30, 1967.
Columbus, Georgia, Museum of Arts and Crafts; Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia, Holty's Hegira, November 1, 1968-February 8, 1969.
Beaumont, Texas, Wilson Memorial Art Center, Selections from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, July 6-Agust 8, 1970.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, November 22, 1972-March 1, 1973.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Carl Holty (1900-1973): A Memorial Exhibition from the Michener Collection, June 21,1973-Janaury 12, 1975.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Gorky's Contemporaries, October 12-November 23, 1975.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, Carl Holty: The World Seen & Sensed, December 11, 1980-February 1, 1981, n.p., no. 6.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, 1927-1944, November 5, 1983-September 9, 1984.
Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Routes Toward Modernism: American Painting 1870-1950, September 13-December 29, 2002.