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Margaret E Arthur
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| Margaret Arthur works in oil, acrylic, pastel and collage. A native Clevelander, she has long been on the area art scene. In 1997 she had a solo show at Cuyahoga Community College's Metro Campus in Cleveland. She has exhibited in the Butler Institute... |
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Herb Ascherman
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| Herbert Ascherman Jr. has been a Professional Photographer since 1975, working mostly in black and white and exploring the rare art of platinum photography. A teacher for over thirty years (including the Cleveland Institute of Art), Herb's photograph... |
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Harriet Moore Ballard
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| Local writer Elizabeth McClelland described Harriet Moore Ballard's work for a catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the AAWR in 2002:
"Composed Fragments...well defines her art...her paintings evolve as she works, one part suggesting another un... |
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Ruth Bercaw
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| Ruth Bercaw's art flourished after she graduated with a B.F.A. in 1959 from Washington University, St. Louis. Her commitment to bold ideas produces fresh looking forms, thus her paintings turn out being experiments of the human spirit. As an active C... |
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June Bonner
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| June Bonner is a fiber artist with a history of weaving images from other cultures into her artwork. Especially, her travels to Japan, Thailand and Nepal have influenced her work. As Allen Zimmerman of the Cleveland Institute of Art has commented, [s... |
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Ginna Brand
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| Ginna grew up in a small town on the Ohio River south of Pittsburgh in the 1930's. After a year at Edinboro Sate Teachers College she transferred to Kent State University earning a degree in Art Education. While at Kent she met and later married Davi... |
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Samuel Butnik
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| Samuel Butnik was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, he pursued his artistic career in many places, living in Taos, New Mexico, New York City, France, Greece, Spain, England and Providence, Rhode Is... |
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Shirley Aley Campbell
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| Campbell , a recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1986, passionately records the human figure and its social context. Since the beginning of her career in the 1940s, her style has changed from figurative expressionism to total abstraction, and si... |
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John Clague
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| Born in Cleveland in 1928, Clague studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA with honors, 1956) under Edris Eckhardt, Walter Sinz, Walter Midner, John Bergschneider, Julius Schmidt, and William McVey. As a fourth-year student he was awarded a Yal... |
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David E Davis
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| Davis (1920 - 2002) graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an MFA, in 1961. One of the region's most celebrated artists and the recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1980, Davis has been described as a "high modernist... keeping faith... |
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Bonnie Dolin
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| Bonnie Dolin graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1973 with a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking, and in 1985 she went on to receive her M.F.A. from Kent State University. For the last several years the city has been her subject matter of... |
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Mary Lou Ferbert
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| For over 30 years, Mary Lou Ferbert prowled Cleveland's Flats, finding inspiration for her paintings in that "throbbing heart of the city that once was a power engine of the industrial revolution" [from the Artist's Statement]. As the Flats changed, ... |
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Barbara Gillette
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| Akron-area artist, Barbara Gillette, primarily works in pastel and monoprints. Her focus subject is landscape with an emphasis on Medina County and also rural Ohio. She states that she is "especially interested in the tension between suburban and rur... |
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Morton Grossman
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| As an art educator/teacher, Morton Grossman's work encompasses many visions of landscapes through an abstract and expressionistic eye. He began his career by graduating from the Art Students League of New York and has since taught at a number of high... |
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David Haberman
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| An extremely sophisticated and accomplished painter, Haberman has spent the past thirty years perfecting a style of pure, evocative abstraction. He paints spontaneously and intuitively, often following unexpected associations that emerge during the p... |
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Lee Heinen
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| The work of painter Lee Heinen can be found all over the city of Cleveland. She is included in numerous corporate collections (MBNA Bank, Ameritech, B.F. Goodrich, Cleveland Clinic, National City Bank, University Hospitals to name a few) and represen... |
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William Martin Jean
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| Widely acclaimed for his elegant systems-based art, William Martin Jean creates paintings that combine rational, intellectual experience with personal, intuited feeling. During his early years, Jean created improvisatory paintings with richly impasto... |
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Robert Jergens
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| Jergens explores complex relationships between abstract composition and observed reality, with a particular concern for the way the mind processes optical data. Early in his career, he invented a personal style of entirely abstract form. More recentl... |
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Jennie Jones
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| Jennie Jones was born in Denver, Colorado. She attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and was graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in art history. She joined the education staff of ... |
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David Kaplan
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| David Kaplan has continuously worked and exhibited in the fine arts in his native Cleveland, and in New York City, Birmingham AL., Albany NY., New Orleans, and various Ohio cities. His art education includes attending Cleveland Museum of Art Children... |
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Kestutis Kizevicius
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| Kestutis (Kesty) Kizevicius was a painter and printmaker born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1952. His parents emigrated from Lithuania, and Kesty was exposed to an active Lithuanian culture in his home growing up. Kizevicius received a B.F.A, from the Clevel... |
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Mark Krieger
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| Mark Krieger graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art. After teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Texas at Austin, Krieger returned to Cleveland where he became an artist in residence at the University School in Sh... |
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Mario Kujawski
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| Kujawski's work is directly related to his life in South America. His early memories of carnival masks and costumes and heavily textured city walls bring forth his palette of vivid primary colors. In his words, "In my work I use bright colors and I p... |
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Charlotte Lees
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| Charlotte Lees has a personal and deep connection to Cleveland as she was born, raised and still works here today. At an early age she decided that she wanted to become an artist and took classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Insti... |
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Adele Marihatt
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| Adele Marihatt became an Archived Artist in 2002. Adele is a Swiss born painter who spent the first part of her career in the medical field and began her professional pursuit of painting in the early 1970�s. Her work has been shown in galleries and m... |
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Joseph McCullough
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| Joseph McCullough, a trained painter, holds a diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has also received his BFA and MFA from the School of Art at Yale University, where he studied under Lewis York and Josef Albers. Throughout his life he has ... |
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Kathleen McKenna
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| Expressive brushwork and rich color characterize the portraits and figurative works of Kathleen McKenna. Marianne Berardi, former director of The Cleveland Artists Foundation, wrote: "McKenna's use of color is not simply bold but truly adventurous, a... |
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Bea Mitchell
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| Beginning in the early 1990's Bea began making sculptures based on her fascination with topology and especially the marvel known as a Mobius strip. Mitchell's lilting half-twist sculptures have a special grace and freedom. constructed from materials... |
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Gail Newman
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| Gail Newman was born in Queens, New York and started sketching at an early age, but was discouraged by her 6th grade art teacher who commented to Gail that, "You may draw better than the others, but I'm giving you a 'C' because you don't do enough wo... |
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patricia zinsmeister parker
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| A major influence in the region for over three decades, Parker creates largely through intuition and felt emotion. She developed her mature style in the mid 1970s, at a time when the local art scene was dominated by hard-edge, geometric painters. Alt... |
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Gloria Plevin
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| A prominent artist, listed in Who's Who in American Art 1995-Present, Plevin graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, Gloria Plevin also attended the Cleveland Institue of Art, the Cooper School of Art, and studied with prominent local artists... |
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Sidney Rheuban
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| Sid Rheuban didn't know he was an artist until he was in his late 60's. He was always attracted to art, but never had a clue he could produce anything on his own. He worked in Washington, DC after high school while attending night classes. He used to... |
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Ingeborg Richter
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| Ingeborg Richter was born in Czechoslovakia and studied art throughout Europe. While she was in Germany and Italy she studied under Christian Klaiber (a member of Bauhaus) and Weidenbacher, a student of Henry Matisse. Ingeborg later moved to the Unit... |
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George Roby
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| Archived in 2002, George Roby is a respected Ohio potter, sculptor, and teacher. His work includes large, expressive slab and coil built sculptures that are suitable for indoor or outdoor exhibit. He also produces functional stoneware using both hand... |
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Thomas Roese
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| Since he graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1971, Thomas Roese has been busy making his career as an artist and an art educator. His paintings appeared in the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show every year from 1979-1989. He has shown in... |
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Charles Sallee
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| Charles Sall�e was born in Oberlin and grew up in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the first African-American to graduate from the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art). He worked for the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1941 a... |
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Phyllis Seltzer
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| Seltzer derives inspiration from her immediate environment, but uses innovative printmaking techniques to translate these experiences into indelibly personal images. She has been a leader in the art community, contributing to groups such as E.A.T. (E... |
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Newson H Shewitz
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| Newson H. Shewitz, known to his friends as "Bucky," is a native of Detroit. Shewitz attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon) in Pittsburgh, where he majored in Industrial Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After service during WW... |
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Phyllis Sloane
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| Phyllis Sloane is an extremely versatile artist who paints in acrylic, egg tempera, and watercolor. She has also explored an astonishing variety of graphic media, including silkscreen, lithography, etching monotype, cork prints, and various methods o... |
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Marvin Smith
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| Marvin Smith is a printmaker, painter and ceramic artist. In addition to exhibiting his work in numerous regional, national and international shows, he has extensive experience in the design of site-specific art. He has had numerous ceramic relief mu... |
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Jean Sommer
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| Jean Sommer was born to an intellectual and artistic working-class family and was raised in London. She left school in 1941, at the age of 16, to pursue her interests � first she worked painting flowers on lampshades, then she explored the field of a... |
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Marsha Sweet
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| "Marsha Sweet' s woodcuts and wood engravings focus mainly on the human image and she captures the essence of her subjects with the immediacy found in watercolors or drawings. Her portraits of famous women have the panache and glamour of their public... |
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Randall Tiedman
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| Randall Tiedman is a highly intuitive self taught artist. He was accepted for an advanced standing at the Cleveland Institute of art after his tour of duty in Vietnam but decided to pursue art on his own. He did not publicly exhibit his art until 198... |
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Kathleen Totter
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| Kathleen Totter, recipient of an MA in Ceramics from Kent State University, has participated in numerous workshops in the medium, as well as in paper, fiber, sculpture, and computer graphics. A sense of spirituality infuses her Raku, paper, and fiber... |
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Nancy Underhill
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| Nancy Underhill was born in Chicago, Illinois and has attended University of Kansas and Kalamazoo College where she received her Bachelor of Arts. Underhill has had work exhibited throughout the Midwest. Specifically in Cleveland, her work has been s... |
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Doug Utter
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| Doug Utter was born December 8, 1950, and raised in Cleveland Heights. He attended Case-Western Reserve University and has since been a self-employed writer and exhibiting artist since 1986. He has on various occasions taught painting and drawing cou... |
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Evelyn Svec Ward
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| Evelyn Svec Ward (1921-1989) was a prolific fiber artist whose career was highlighted in a retrospective at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1991. After 10 years in the textile department at the Cleveland Museum of Art, she resigned from her post to co... |
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William E Ward
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| William E. Ward is a watercolorist "keenly interested in color and the effects that can be achieved by working with color on water-saturated paper or canvas" [from the Artist's Statement]. He derives much of the inspiration for his work from the moun... |
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