Clara Sorensen
Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman | |
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| Born | Clara Barth Leonard 1877 Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Died | 1959 (aged 81–82) Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Spouse(s) | Niels Sorenson and later Charles Dieman[1] |
Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman (1877–1959) was an American sculptor, painter and teacher[2] from Indianapolis, Indiana.[3]
Sorensen studied at the John Herron Art Institute[4] in Indianapolis and was a student of several well-known artists including William Forsyth, Alexander Archipenko and Lorado Taft,[5] who she worked on Fountain of Time with.[6] She also worked with Victor Brenner.[7] Between 1907 and 1916, Leonard returned to the John Herron Art Institute to teach introductory sculpture classes.[3] 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.[2]
Clara Barth Leonard was married twice, to Niels Sorenson and to Charles Dieman.[8]
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.[9] She participated in a number of art exhibitions across the United States, including in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe, New Mexico,[3] where she spent the latter part of her life.[2]
For a while Dieman lived in Denver, Colorado; Taft places her there in 1925 [10] and while there she worked and studied with Robert Garrison at least until 1929.[11]
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- ^ "DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00172376. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
- ^ a b c John Powers; Deborah Powers (2000). Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Woodmont Books. p. 136.
- ^ a b c Judith Vale Newton; Carol Ann Weiss (2004). Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists. Historical Society Press. pp. 269–271.
- ^ Cuba, Stan (6 May 2015). The Denver Artists Guild. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 9781457195952. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
- ^ Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (1999). Who was who in American Art 1564-1975 Vol. 1. Sound View Press. p. 915.
- ^ Indianapolis News. September 11, 1959. “Clara Dieman, Sculptor, Dead in New Mexico.”
- ^ Burnet, Mary Quick (1921). Art and Artists of Indiana. New York: Century. p. 395. ISBN 9780548848074. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2006. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00172376. ISBN 9780199899913.
- ^ Indianapolis News. October 10, 1916. “Biddy Tablet at Shortridge.”
- ^ Taft, Lorado, ‘’The History of American Sculpture’’, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925 p. 586
- ^ Schlosser, Elizabeth, ‘’Modern Sculpture in Denver (1919-1960): Twelve Denver Sculptors’’, Ocean View Books, Denver CO 1995 p. 20