Clara Sorensen

Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman (1877–1959) was an American sculptor, painter and teacher[1] from Indianapolis, Indiana.[2] She was a former student of well-known artists such as William Forsyth, Alexander Archipenko and Lorado Taft,[3] who she worked on Fountain of Time with.[4] She also worked with Victor Brenner.[5] Between 1907 and 1916, Leonard taught introductory sculpture classes at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis.[2] In 1917, she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had been a student of Taft's, and she later studied at Columbia University as well.[1]

Clara Barth Leonard was married twice, to Niels Sorenson and to Charles Dieman.[6]

During her career as a sculptor, Sorenson frequently worked in portraiture, completing a bas-relief of William A. Bell for the Indianapolis school of the same name, and in 1916, a bronze memorial plaque in honor of Shortridge High School custodian James Biddy.[7] She participated in a number of art exhibitions across the United States, including in Chicago, Illinois, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe, New Mexico,[2] where she spent the latter part of her life.[1]

For a while Dieman lived in Denver Colorado; Taft places her there in 1925 [8] and while there she worked and studied with Robert Garrison at least until 1929.[9]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 John Powers; Deborah Powers (2000). Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Woodmont Books. p. 136.
  2. 1 2 3 Judith Vale Newton; Carol Ann Weiss (2004). Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists. Historical Society Press. pp. 269–271.
  3. ↑ Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (1999). Who was who in American Art 1564-1975 Vol. 1. Sound View Press. p. 915.
  4. ↑ Indianapolis News. September 11, 1959. “Clara Dieman, Sculptor, Dead in New Mexico.”
  5. ↑ Burnet, Mary Quick (1921). Art and Artists of Indiana. New York: Century. p. 395. ISBN 9780548848074. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2006. ISBN 9780199899913.
  7. ↑ Indianapolis News. October 10, 1916. “Biddy Tablet at Shortridge.”
  8. ↑ Taft, Lorado, ‘’The History of American Sculpture’’, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925 p. 586
  9. ↑ Schlosser, Elizabeth, ‘’Modern Sculpture in Denver (1919-1960): Twelve Denver Sculptors’’, Ocean View Books, Denver CO 1995 p. 20
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