"Most artists," says Carroll Cloar of Memphis, "are quite articulate about their philosophy of art. In fact, some have gotten to the point where they talk better than they paint." At 46, Artist Cloar himself does not like to talk much, but few artists need to less.
The son of a harddriving, hefty farmer ("I'd have preferred it if he'd been a bit smaller") whose own father settled in Earle, Ark. before it was even a town, Cloar has been recording the story of his part of the South almost all his life. Though neither...
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