David Carr studied at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and worked in Norfolk and in London, where he became the fiend of Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde and other Soho-based artists. Although Carr was included in an important survey of British painting at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1953 and continued to exhibit in Norfolk and London until his death in 1968, it was not until a major retrospective exhibition at the Mayor Gallery in 1987 that his true stature was appreciated in London. To coincide with the exhibition a monograph 'David Carr, the Discovery of an Artist'by Bryan Robertson & Ronald Alley was published by Quarted Books. Austin/Desmond Fine Art showed Carr's work alongside that of his close friend Prunella Clough in 1997.
