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|  The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, AOA, NEAA: Fine Art Consultant, www.pkart.com
May Spear Clinedinst was a teacher and painter of landscapes, still lifes, ship portraits, harbors, and fishermen. She was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1887 and died in St. Petersburg, FL in 1960. Clinedinst was living in Brooklyn in 1947 and in St. Petersburg in 1959. Many of the artists she studied with lived and worked in the New England area, especially around Cape Ann where she produced masterful paintings of Rockport and Gloucester in oil and watercolor.
Her formal education took place at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Clinedinst studied with John Fabian Carlson (875-1947); Stanley Wingate Woodward (1890-1970); Anthony Thieme (1888-1954); Arthur Leighton Guptill (1891-1956); John R. Koopman (1881-1949); Breen (possibly Katherine M., c. 1886-1956); Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978); Frederick John Mulhaupt (1871-1938); Eric Pape (1870-1938); and Umberto Roberto Romano (1905-1984).
Clinedinst held memberships in the National Association of Women Artists in NYC; American Artists Professional League; Brooklyn Society of Artists; St. Petersburg Art Club in FL; Clearwater Art Group; Gulf Coast Art Group; Florida Art Group; St. Petersburg Art League in FL; Gloucester Society in MA; Ridgewood Art Association in NJ; and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.
Exhibitions include Salons of America, 1934-35; North Shore Art Association, 1935-45; Allied Artists of America in NYC, 1937-42; Brooklyn Society of Artists, 1938-41; St. Petersburg Art Club where she won a prize; St. Petersburg Art League, 1954-55; Society of Independent Artists in NYC; Largo, FL in 1954 where she won a prize; National Association of Women Artists, 1940-42, 1944, 1946, 1950-55 (traveling exhibit, 1955-56); National Arts Club in NY where she won a prize in 1951; Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, 1941; Brooklyn Museum, 1942-45; American Watercolor Society, 1944; Ridgewood Art Association; Sarasota Art Association in FL; National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 1953; Ogunquit Art Association in ME; Wolfe Art Club; Brooklyn Society of Artists; North Shore Art Association, 1950-55; and American Artists Professional League, 1950-55;
References: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art", 1999, page 669; Ray Davenport, "Davenport's Art Reference 2003/2004", page 427; Daniel Mallett, "Mallett Supplement 1948, page 53"; Ray Kreps, "Dealer's Choice Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters"... 2002, page 268
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