Katherine Dorn Cass - Artist Info

About Katherine Dorn Cass

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Kae Dorn Cass, Katherine Dorn
  • Biography

    Kae Dorn Cass was born in 1901 and remained a life-long Clevelander. She was a survivor of the 1908 Collinwood Elementary School fire which killed her sister and 171 other children. She was graduated from East Technical High School and entered the Cleveland School of Art in 1919.

    Upon graduation from the school she was awarded a Frederick C. Gottwald Scholarship for a year's study in Paris. She joined the faculty in 1925 and taught at the Cleveland School of Art until 1961.

    A gifted watercolorist, she exhibited nationally and her work was included in nearly every Cleveland Museum of Art May Show since 1925. Her favorite themes were flowers and landscapes. Her work was hung in the Corcoran and in shows in San Franci...

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