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| From Indianapolis, Clara Dieman became a sculptor, modeler and art
educator whose teaching assignments took her to many parts of the
country. A specialty was collaborating with architects to coordinate
sculpture with building design. She was married to Niels Sorenson
and to Charles Dieman. She spent the last nine years of her life
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 1917, she graduated from the Art
Institute of Chicago* where she studied with Lorado Taft and Charles
Mulligan. She then studied at Columbia University with Victor
Brenner and with Ossip Zadkine in France. Other teachers included
Alexander Archipenko, William Forsyth and Amedee Ozenfant.
Moving
around frequently when she began her career, she lived in Houston,
Texas in the late 1920s and early 1930s; in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the
mid 1930s; and in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania for fifteen years where from
1934 to 1947 she taught at the Shipley School for Girls and served as
Director of the Art Department. Then she lived in New York City
and taught at the School of Creative Arts and the University School of
Handicraft. She also spent time in Denver and Philadelphia.
In
1930, Dieman began visits to New Mexico, which included teaching at the
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and making statuary for the
stations of the cross for the University's St. Thomas Aquinas
chapel. In Santa Fe, where she died in 1959, Dieman taught at the
Santa Fe Art School and the Santa Fe county schools.
Exhibition
venues included the Society of Western Artists*, Art Institute of
Chicago, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, National Academy of
Design*, Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and the Annual Houston
Artists Exhibition.
Clara Dieman was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists*, National
Association of Women Painters and Sculptors* and the Philadelphia Print
Club.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists
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