id: 124526 accession number: 1945.47 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.47 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:01.995000 God's Garden, 1945. Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1908–1977). Oil on canvas; unframed: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Silver Jubilee Treasure Fund 1945.47 title: God's Garden title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1945 creation date earliest: 1945 creation date latest: 1945 current location: creditline: Silver Jubilee Treasure Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1908–1977) - artist Frazier grew up in New Philadelphia, Ohio, and studied ceramics with Julius Mihalik at the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1929. In the late 1920s she and sculptor Waylande Gregory worked at Cowan Pottery as the firm’s principal artists. She first exhibited in the 1934 May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and continued to do so until 1949. She showed in the annual National Ceramic exhibitions in Syracuse, New York (1935–58), where in 1939 she became the first woman to win a first place award. After a post graduate study in art education at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Ohio State University, she began teaching in Cleveland public schools. In 1939 the Little Gallery of Cleveland College mounted an exhibition of her works. That year she married the enamelist Edward Winter, whom she had met at Cowan Pottery. She continued to paint and work with clay until the late 1950s, garnering several large-scale ceramic commissions from churches and schools. In 1958, under her husband’s influence, Winter took up enameling, and collaborated with him on a number of enamel mural commissions in the 1960s and 1970s.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 241
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Unframed: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: Thelma Frazier Winter. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 27th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1945-05-01T04:00:00 The May Show: 27th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-June 10, 1945). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Thelma Frazier Winter Entry Card to 1945 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS07339/ --- IMAGES