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John Teyrel BIOGRAPHY
1912 Yaroslav, Russia - 1999 Highlands, North Carolina. Known for: Modernist painting of carnival scenes, landscapes, atmospherics.
The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999: . John Teyral... Read full biography
The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999: . John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibited in galleries across the country and was an... Read full biography
The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999: . John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibited in galleries across the country and was an award winner in the May Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art for decades. The museum has many of his paintings, and other museums in the country have collected his work. Mr. Teyral also painted... Read full biography
The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999: . John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibited in galleries across the country and was an award winner in the May Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art for decades. The museum has many of his paintings, and other museums in the country have collected his work. Mr. Teyral also painted portraits of many prominent Clevelanders. He taught advanced painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 40 years. Mr. Teyral died February 17 in Highlands, N.C. He was 87. He was born in Yaroslav, Russian, but his family moved to the United States when... Read full biography
The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. "Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999: . John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibited in galleries across the country and was an award winner in the May Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art for decades. The museum has many of his paintings, and other museums in the country have collected his work. Mr. Teyral also painted portraits of many prominent Clevelanders. He taught advanced painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 40 years. Mr. Teyral died February 17 in Highlands, N.C. He was 87. He was born in Yaroslav, Russian, but his family moved to the United States when he was 1. While he was growing up on the near West Side, he took to art the way most boys take to sports. He was 12... Read full biography
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The following, submitted July 2004, is from Benjamin Moss, who found the artist's obituary in the library of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
"Cleveland Plain Dealer" obituary, 4/3/1999:
John Teyral was one of Cleveland's most acclaimed artists. He exhibited in galleries across the country and was an award winner in the May Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art for decades. The museum has many of his paintings, and other museums in the country have collected his work. Mr. Teyral also painted portraits of many prominent Clevelanders.
He taught advanced painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 40 years.
Mr. Teyral died February 17 in Highlands, N.C. He was 87.
He was born in Yaroslav, Russian, but his family moved to the United States when he was 1. While he was growing up on the near West Side, he took to art the way most boys take to sports. He was 12 when he submitted a drawing at a branch library that won him admission to Saturday classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Each year that he was a student at Lincoln High School, he won the Cleveland School of Art's high school competition. When he graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1934, he received an Agnes Gund traveling scholarship to study at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.
In 1938 he attended Ecole de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. After World War II, he studied at Accademia di Belli Arti in Florence, Italy, through a Fulbright grant.
Mr. Teyral made a number of study trips to Europe, north Africa, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.
In addition to fine arts painting, Mr. Teyral did commercial art for McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency in the 1930s and 1940s.
He lived in Cleveland Heights for many years. He moved to Highlands, N.C., in the 1970s. He continued painting until five years ago."Biography from the Archives of askART
John Teyral's picture, Rockport Souvenir, 1950, was included in a juried exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on New York held in 1950. The exhibition, “American Painting Today 1950 - A National Competitive Exhibition’ was the result of a nation-wide juried show that included works of 75 artists. It was one of the first activities of the Metrolpolitan’s then new Department of American Art, established in 1949.
Source/Submitted by: Ken Goody