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Katherine Dorn Cass BIOGRAPHY
1901 Cleveland, Ohio - 1971. Known for: Painting of flowers, landscapes , portrait and figure.
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... Read full 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... Read full 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... Read full 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 Francisco and New York. She was... Read full 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 Francisco and New York. She was past president of the Women's Art Club of Cleveland and a member of the Ohio Watercolor Society. She was also e... Read full biography
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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...But wait, there's more...
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