id: 134651 accession number: 1957.176 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.176 updated: 2024-08-08 15:14:44.074000 Rhythmic Movement, 1956. Clara L. Deike (American, 1881–1964). Oil on board; unframed: 60.4 x 50 cm (23 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Traveling Exhibitions Fund 1957.176 title: Rhythmic Movement title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1956 creation date earliest: 1956 creation date latest: 1956 current location: creditline: Cleveland Traveling Exhibitions Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on board department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Clara L. Deike (American, 1881–1964) - artist A native of Detroit, Clara Deike attended high school in Cleveland and earned an associate degree in education from the Cleveland Normal School in 1901. In early 1909, after teaching elementary school in Ohio and Kentucky, Deike began studying art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. That fall she enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art, studying with Frederick Gottwald and Henry Keller. After graduating in 1912, she taught art in public schools until her retirement in 1945. During the summers, she took various art classes, including those organized by Henry Keller in Berlin Heights, 1910-20, and Hugh Breckenridge in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1921-23. On a leave of absence from teaching, Deike studied with Hans Hofmann in Capri and Munich, 1925-27. She exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919-59) and showed her work throughout the Cleveland area in various exhibitions, including those sponsored by the Women's Art Club, a professional organization she cofounded in 1912. The Lakewood Public Library sponsored her first solo exhibition (1918). Her paintings appeared in subsequent solo exhibitions at the Little Gallery in Cleveland and the Washington Art Club in Washington, D.C. (1924), Cleveland's Korner & Wood Galleries (1927), the Gladden Studios in Columbus (1935), the Canton Women's Club (1937), and the Women's City Club of Cleveland (1950). She participated in group exhibitions at Kraushaar Art Galleries in New York (1927) and the Gloucester Arts Festival in Massachusetts (1953-1960). Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 226.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Unframed: 60.4 x 50 cm (23 3/4 x 19 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: Clara L. Deike, 1956 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 39th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1957-05-15T04:00:00 The May Show: 39th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 15-June 23, 1957). title: Untitled Exhibition opening date: 1971-08-15T04:00:00 Untitled Exhibition. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 12, 1971). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Clara L. Deike Entry Card to 1957 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS11325 Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. page number: Reproduced: P. 22, fig. 13 url: "Past Masters." In Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cleveland Arts Prize 2020-2021, edited by Alenka Banco, 19-22. Cleveland: Cleveland Arts Prize, 2020. page number: Reproduced: p. 21 url: --- IMAGES