The Cleveland School refers to the flourishing local arts community in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

and

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during the period from 1910 to 1960. It was so named in 1928 by Elrick Davis, a journalist with the ''

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''. The Cleveland School was renowned for its

watercolor painting Watercolor (American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the U ...

, and also included well-known

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

enamelist Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between . The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. The word comes from the Lati ...

s, and

ceramist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whil ...

s. Artists of the Cleveland School were involved with the founding of the Cleveland School of Art (now

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), the

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, Cleveland Society of Artists, Kokoon Arts Club, and Cleveland's annual May Show.

Cleveland School artists

* George Adomeit * Russell B. Aitken *

Richard Anuszkiewicz Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (; May 23, 1930 – May 19, 2020) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Life and work Anuszkiewicz was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, the son of Victoria (Jankowski) and Adam Anuszkiewicz, who worked in a pap ...

* Whitney Atchley * Kenneth F. Bates * Joseph Boersig * August Biehle * Lawrence Edwin Blazey * Alexander Blazys * Paul Bogatay * Jack M. Burton * Elmer Brubeck * Charles E. Burchfield * Martha Burchfield * Clarence H. Carter * Claude Conover *

R. Guy Cowan Reginald Guy Cowan (August 1, 1884 – March 10, 1957) was an American potter and designer. He founded Cowan Pottery and was a leading figure in the Cleveland School of artists. External links Entry for R. Guy Cowanon the Union List of Artist ...

* Paul Dominey * László Dús * Nora E. Dyer * Harold Edward * Edris (Edith Aline) Eckhardt * W. Leroy Flint * Carl Gaertner * Clement and Fern Giorgi *

Frederick Gottwald Frederick Carl Gottwald (August 15, 1858 – June 23, 1941) was a traditionalist Americans, American painting, painter who was influential in the development of the Cleveland School (arts community), Cleveland School of art, sometimes called the " ...

* Waylande Gregory * Doris Hall * Harold W. Hunsicker * A. Drexler Jacobson * Joseph W. Jicha *

Max Kalish Max Kalish (March 1, 1891 – 1945) was American sculptor born in Valozhyn, Belarus, and best known for his sculptures of laborers. His Orthodox Jewish family emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio in 1893, when he was two years old. He studied with Herm ...

Henry Keller Henry George Keller (April 3, 1869 – August 3, 1949) was an American artist who led a generation of Ohio watercolor painters of the Cleveland School. Keller's students at the Cleveland School of Art and his Berlin Heights, Ohio summer school i ...

* Grace V. Kelly * Kalman Kubinyi * Robert Laessig * Charles Lakovsky * Fred Leach *

Hughie Lee-Smith Hughie Lee-Smith (September 20, 1915 – February 23, 1999) was an American artist and teacher whose surreal paintings often featured distant figures under vast skies, and desolate urban settings. Life and career Lee-Smith was born in Eustis, ...

* Norman E. Magden *

Herman Matzen Herman Matzen (July 15, 1861 – April 22, 1938) American sculptor and educator, born in Denmark. Early years Matzen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin before immigrating to the United States. ...

* Alice McGinty * Leza and William McVey * Carl Moellman * Joseph Motto * Charles Murphy * Horace Potter * Steven A. Rebeck * Louis Rorimer * Charles L. Sallée Jr *

Viktor Schreckengost Viktor Schreckengost (June 26, 1906 – January 26, 2008) was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal re ...

* Walt Scott * Sam Scott * Marvin Smith (artist) * Elizabeth Andersen Seaver * Glen Moore and Elsa Vick Shaw * William Sommer * Esther Marshall Sills * Walter Sinz * Drew Smith * Julian Stanczak * Rolf Stoll * Paul Travis * Abel and Alexander Warshawsky *

Frank N. Wilcox Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernism, modernist Americans, American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School (arts community), Cleveland School painters," though s ...

* Sandor Vago *

H. Edward Winter Harold Edward Winter (October 14, 1908 - July 22, 1976) was an American artist who worked primarily in enamels. Known also as H. Edward Winter and Edward Winter, he wrote several books on enameling and produced enamel murals for churches and the ...

Thelma Frazier Winter Thelma Frazier Winter (1903–1977) was an American enamelist, ceramic sculptor, and painter. She worked at Cowan Pottery and belonged to the Cleveland School of artists. Biography Thelma Frazier was born in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, to Robert Frazie ...

References

{{reflist 3. Folk, Thomas. "Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse''." University of Richmond Museums, 2013. Cleveland School (arts community) Culture of Cleveland

Cleveland School artists

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