Clarence Holbrook Carter’s War Bride and the Machine/Woman Fantasy

May 1, 2003

Dynamos are women Round with the first sweet swelling Of a new mother’s milk. — Macknight Black, “New Mother,” 1929 [1] In 1940, Clarence Holbrook Carter produced a painting that disturbed him. In fact, War Bride (figure 1) was so unlike his previous work that he was reluctant to exhibit...