Carol Haerer (1933-2002) was a New York-based artist known for abstract painting in the vein of Minimalism and Lyrical abstraction. Haerer is best known for her “White Painting” series. Her work was included in the Lyrical Abstraction exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 1990, the Rothko Foundation at Artists Space sponsored a three-person exhibition of Ed Clark, Carol Haerer, and Ted Kanshare, which was reviewed by Arts Magazine. Her large paintings were often stretched on supports with rounded corners, creating a sense of elegant objecthood as well as luminous surface quality. Haerer graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1954, and went on to receive a Fulbright Fellowship to attend the Sorbonne in Paris for two years. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received an M.F.A. Haerer received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Art in 1988. Her work is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, and other notable collections.