Clara Sorensen

Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman (1877–1959) was an American sculptor, painter and teacher[2] from Indianapolis, Indiana.[3]

Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman
Born
Clara Barth Leonard

1877 (1877)
Indianapolis, Indiana
Died1959 (aged 81–82)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
NationalityAmerican
Known forSculpture
Spouse(s)Niels Sorenson and later Charles Dieman[1]

Sorensen studied at the John Herron Art Institute[4] in Indianapolis and was a student of several well-known artists including William Forsyth, Alexander Archipenko and Lorado Taft,[5] who she worked on Fountain of Time with.[6] She also worked with Victor Brenner.[7] Between 1907 and 1916, Leonard returned to the John Herron Art Institute to teach introductory sculpture classes.[3] In 1917, she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had been a student of Taft's, and she later studied at Columbia University as well.[2]

Clara Barth Leonard was married twice, to Niels Sorenson and to Charles Dieman.[8]

During her career as a sculptor, Sorenson frequently worked in portraiture, completing a bas-relief of William A. Bell for the Indianapolis school of the same name, and in 1916, a bronze memorial plaque in honor of Shortridge High School custodian James Biddy.[9] She participated in a number of art exhibitions across the United States, including in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe, New Mexico,[3] where she spent the latter part of her life.[2]

For a while Dieman lived in Denver, Colorado; Taft places her there in 1925 [10] and while there she worked and studied with Robert Garrison at least until 1929.[11]

Works

References
  1. "DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. John Powers; Deborah Powers (2000). Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Woodmont Books. p. 136.
  3. Judith Vale Newton; Carol Ann Weiss (2004). Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists. Historical Society Press. pp. 269–271.
  4. Cuba, Stan (6 May 2015). The Denver Artists Guild. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 9781457195952. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  5. Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (1999). Who was who in American Art 1564-1975 Vol. 1. Sound View Press. p. 915.
  6. Indianapolis News. September 11, 1959. “Clara Dieman, Sculptor, Dead in New Mexico.”
  7. Burnet, Mary Quick (1921). Art and Artists of Indiana. New York: Century. p. 395. ISBN 9780548848074. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  8. "DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2006. ISBN 9780199899913.
  9. Indianapolis News. October 10, 1916. “Biddy Tablet at Shortridge.”
  10. Taft, Lorado, ‘’The History of American Sculpture’’, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925 p. 586
  11. Schlosser, Elizabeth, ‘’Modern Sculpture in Denver (1919-1960): Twelve Denver Sculptors’’, Ocean View Books, Denver CO 1995 p. 20
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