Clarence I. Dreisbach

Born in Union Hill, Carbon County, Pennsylvania  of Pennsylvania-Dutch Mennonite parents. Studied with the late Orlando G. Wales and at the Baum Art School.  Graduate of the Federal Schools in Design.  Employed as an engineering draftsman, commercial artist and industrial designer.  Was an instructor of landscape painting at the Allentown Community College, the Wyomissing Inst. of Fine Arts and the Baum Art School.  His paintings and drawings have been reproduced in Ideals and other publications.

Member - Charter member of the Lehigh Art Alliance; St. Augustine Art Association; Boston Society of Independent Artist; The Buck Hill Art Association; Woodmere Art League; Trustee of the Allentown Art Museum; American Artist Profession League; Berks Art Alliance; Lancaster County Art Association; Pocono Mts Art Group; Stroudsburg Gallery Art Club; Lake Worth Art League.

Represented - In permanent collections of Allentown Art Museum; Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery; Call Chronicle Publishing Co.; Raub Jr. High School; Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers; Wilson Borough High School; Quakertown High School; Muhlenberg Public School; Bucks County School Service Center; Bethlehem Liberty High School; Swain Country Day School and many private collections.

Awarded - Popular prize, Leigh Art Alliance 1946; Honorable Mention, Florida Southern College International Exhibition, Lakeland, Florida 1952; Honorable Mention Lehigh Art Alliance, "Portrait of Free Press." 1951; Honorable Mention Lehigh Art Alliance, "Portrait of a Dairy." 1952; Honorable Mention Lehigh Art Alliance, "Portrait of Anthracite." 1953; Frazer, First Award for oil, St. Augustine Art Association, December 1953; First Prize Hess-Baum Exhibition, 1953; First Prize and popular vote, Call-Chronicle Exhibition 1955.  First Prize.  Professional class, Wyckoff 21st Annual Exhibition.

Exhibited in addition to the above at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Springfeld (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts; Eggleston Galleries (N.Y.C.) Norton Galleries (West Palm Beach, Florida); The Art Center (Ogonquit, Maine.); Penna. State Museum (Harrisburg, Pa.) The Inn at Buck Hill Falls, (Pa.) Beau Mont Art Museum, Texas; Crapo Gallery, Swain School, New Bedford; Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt. Etc.   Tryingham Galleries (Mass.)  National Arts Club (N.Y.C.) Burr Galleries (N.Y.C.)

Source:

Submitted by Griffin's Gallery and adapted from a text of one of the artist's paintings.