May Spear Clinedinst - Artist Info

About May Spear Clinedinst

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    The following is from Peter Kostoulakos, AOA, NEAA: Fine Art Consultant, www.pkart.com

    May Spear Clinedinst was a teacher and painter of landscapes, still lifes, ship portraits, harbors, and fishermen. She was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1887 and died in St. Petersburg, FL in 1960. Clinedinst was living in Brooklyn in 1947 and in St. Petersburg in 1959. Many of the artists she studied with lived and worked in the New England area, especially around Cape Ann where she produced masterful paintings of Rockport and Gloucester in oil and watercolor.

    Her formal education took place at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Clinedinst studied with John Fabian Carlson (875-1947); Stanley Wingate...

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