Carey Cloud

Artist: C. Carey Cloud
Birth: 1899
Birth City: Whistleville, IN.
Birth County: Grant
Death: November 11th, 1984
Death City: Tuscon Arizona
Burial: Brown County Memorial Park, Nashville, IN.
Married: Vera L. Nickerson
Children: Mary Margaret (1918-1992), Don (1926), Harold C (1921-1960)
2nd Marriage: Bobbie Hill

Artist Summary

Formal Training: Self Taught
Subject Matter: Landscapes
Media: Oil, Acrylic, Casein
Art Association: Brown County Art Association, Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago, Chicago Art Guild, American Artist Professional League of New York, American Artist League of Tampa, FL
Art Awards:
Art Exhibitions:

Biography of C. Carey Cloud

1. Carey Cloud was a self-taught artist
2. When he was young, he worked at a shoe company in Marion, IN for 10 dollars a week making shoes for the soldiers.
3. He saved enough money to take correspondence courses in Cartooning and Illustration.
4. At 19 started his art career at the Cleveland Press working in advertising.
5. Carey became director for a calendar and greeting card company.
6. Carey and his family spent summers in Brown County Indiana.
7. While working and living in Chicago, they never forgot Brown County and eventually purchased Adolph Shulz’s studio property.
8. Unfortunately, during the depression, they were forced to sell the property and leave Brown County.
9. Designed many of the Cracker Jack toys and held several patents.

Other Relevant Links

You can read more about Carey, the Cracker Jack toys he invented, view his paintings and other work on his Great Grandsons Website www.c-carey-cloud.com.

Sources:

1. M. Joanne Nesbit and Barbara Judd - Those Brown County Artists - "The Ones Who Came, the Ones Who Stayed, The Ones Who Moved On 1900 - 1950" - Nanna's Books 1993
2. MyKindred.com