Clara Deike ART FOR SALE

1881 Detroit, Michigan - 1964. Known for: Modernist landscape painting, teaching.

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A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in 1912, Clara Deike was part of the watercolor movement in Northeast Ohio whereby the outdoor sketch became a distinct genre. The group formed the Cleveland Watercolor Society in 1894, and members typically painted outdoors during the summer, enjoying watercolor for its fast-drying properties. She was a student of Henry Keller, 1869-1949, the first Ohio artist to attain distinction as a watercolorist. With him, she developed a modernist style but she utilized his color theories and went further with her own personalized style that emphasized two-dimensional, decorative design. She often used opaque gouache because of its capacity to give the appearance of flattened forms. Source:. "American Art... Read full biography

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From the Wharf

Type:Painting

Year:1952

Size:26.00" x 24.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

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Clara Deike’s From the Wharf (1952), a 26 × 24-inch oil on canvas, shows red and pink fish on a pale platter amid coils of rope and wharf gear. Angled planes and overlapping curves fill the small canvas. Deike trained at the Cleveland School of Art and studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich and Capri.

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