Ohio. 1887 - 1964
Regionalist watercolor landscape painting, genre, illustrator
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1867 Detroit, Michigan - 1949 Cleveland, Ohio. Known for: Modernist-leaning landscape, still life, lithographs.
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringing European modernism to Northeast Ohio. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and in his youth apprenticed for seven years to a lithographer. He briefly... Read full biography
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringing European modernism to Northeast Ohio. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and in his youth apprenticed for seven years to a lithographer. He briefly studied at an art academy in Germany and then worked as a lithographer in New York before moving to... Read full biography
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringing European modernism to Northeast Ohio. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and in his youth apprenticed for seven years to a lithographer. He briefly studied at an art academy in Germany and then worked as a lithographer in New York before moving to Cleveland, where he was awarded a major contract with the Otis Lithography Company. There he became friends with sculptor and painter William Zorach, and the two, determined to be fine artists, began... Read full biography
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringing European modernism to Northeast Ohio. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and in his youth apprenticed for seven years to a lithographer. He briefly studied at an art academy in Germany and then worked as a lithographer in New York before moving to Cleveland, where he was awarded a major contract with the Otis Lithography Company. There he became friends with sculptor and painter William Zorach, and the two, determined to be fine artists, began painting together on weekends. They also became intrigued by avant-garde movements, especially after Zorach's trip to Paris in 1910. In 1911, Sommer co-founded a group in Cleveland called the Kokoon Club, a mixed group of commercial artists and... Read full biography
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringing European modernism to Northeast Ohio. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and in his youth apprenticed for seven years to a lithographer. He briefly studied at an art academy in Germany and then worked as a lithographer in New York before moving to Cleveland, where he was awarded a major contract with the Otis Lithography Company. There he became friends with sculptor and painter William Zorach, and the two, determined to be fine artists, began painting together on weekends. They also became intrigued by avant-garde movements, especially after Zorach's trip to Paris in 1910. In 1911, Sommer co-founded a group in Cleveland called the Kokoon Club, a mixed group of commercial artists and radical modernists who sought the freedom to pursue their independent tendencies. They converted a tailor's shop into a studio and held exhibi... Read full biography
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Brandywine Valley
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Painting-industrial scenes
Ohio, Florida. 1906 - 2008
Ceramics, industrial designer-toys, vehicles, teaching
Ohio / Germany. 1879 - 1967
Landscape, coastal and urban-industry painting
Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan. 1881 - 1964
Modernist landscape painting, teaching
Ohio. 1910 - 1995
Landscape, illustrator
Ohio, Michigan. 1918 - 2013
Figure and floral painting, garden landscape, teaching
Ohio. 1896 - 1985
Mural, genre, landscape, marine paintings
Ohio / England. 1912 - 1977
Still life and landscape painting, mural
Ohio. 1908 - 1999
Landscape and genre painting, etching, murals
Ohio. 1858 - 1940
Genre, streetscape, graphics
Ohio. 1885 - 1979
Still life, landscape, genre painting
Ohio, New Jersey. 1904 - 2000
Modernist genre and landscape painting-watercolor, illustration
Ohio, Colorado. 1881 - 1950
Modernist landscape, town view painting, woodblocks
Ohio. 1905 - 1998
Sculpture-figure, glass, ceramics
Ohio. 1853 - 1924
Still life and landscape painting
Ohio. 1877 - 1950
Watercolor landscape painting, illustration
New Jersey, Michigan. 1908 - 1982
Modernist sky-landscape painting, lithography, teaching
Ohio. Born 1925
Painting
California / France. 1883 - 1962
Landscape, genre, portrait and figure painting
Ohio, California. 1858/1860 - 1941
Landscape, genre-waterfront paintings
Ohio, New Mexico. 1869 - 1955
Modernist, abstract town-sea-landscape and portrait painting
New York / France, Poland. 1891 - 1945
Sculptor-laboring figure
Ohio. 1901 - 1971
Painting of flowers, landscapes , portrait and figure
Ohio, North Carolina. 1934 - 1983
Whimsical fok art figure in watercolor, pastel , ink and painting on glass
Ohio. 1902 - 1999
Night city scenes, illustrator
Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts. 1905 - 1995
Animal and portrait sculpture, teaching
Ohio. 1905 - 1977
Pottery
California, Ohio. 1887 - 1945
Still life, portrait and landscape painting
Ohio, New York, New Jersey. 1913 - 2010
Floral still life, botanical and landscape painting, textile design