Claim: Clarence Bolton became enthralled with the local Catskill Mountains landscape and began painting landscape paintings under John F. Carlson.
Evidence: In Woodstock, Bolton became enthralled with the local Catskill Mountains landscape, and so, in his words, "sort of forsook" sculpture in favor of focusing on landscape painting. He quickly began studying landscape painting under John F. Carlson, a prominent landscape painter who in 1911-1918 had headed the summertime Woodstock School of the Art Students League.