Clara Sorensen
Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman (1877–1959) was an American sculptor, painter and teacher from Indianapolis, Indiana. Sorensen studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and was a student of several well-known artists including William Forsyth, Alexander Archipenko and Lorado Taft, who she worked on Fountain of Time with. She also worked with Victor Brenner.
Also recorded as Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman
Clara Sorensen
Mable Chadband Wilson · The Evening Gazette, March 31, 1917, page 7 · Public domain
- Name
- Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman
- Birth Name
- Clara Barth Leonard
- Born
- 1877
- Birthplace
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Died
- 1959
- Place of death
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Education
- John Herron Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago
- Field
- Sculpture
- Spouse
- Niels Sorenson and later Charles Dieman
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Fields
- art of sculpture
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Between 1907 and 1916, Leonard returned to the John Herron Art Institute to teach introductory sculpture classes. 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. Clara Barth Leonard was married twice, to Niels Sorenson and to Charles Dieman. 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. 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, where she spent the latter part of her life. For a while Dieman lived in Denver, Colorado; Taft places her there in 1925 and while there she worked and studied with Robert Garrison at least until 1929.
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Mable Chadband Wilson · The Evening Gazette, March 31, 1917, page 7
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• Name — Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman • Birth Name — Clara Barth Leonard • Born — 1877 • Birthplace — Indianapolis, Indiana • Died — 1959 • Place of death — Santa Fe, New Mexico • Education — John Herron Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago • Field — Sculpture • Spouse — Niels Sorenson and later Charles Dieman
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1877
Clara Sorensen born at Indianapolis.
1959
Clara Sorensen died at Santa Fe.
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- 1.Oxford University Press. DIEMAN, Clara Sorensen (1877 - 1957), Sculptor. Oxford Index. 2011. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00172376.
- 2.Cuba, Stan. The Denver Artists Guild. University Press of Colorado. 6 May 2015. 9781457195952.
- 3.Peter Hastings Falk. Who was who in American Art 1564-1975 Vol. 1. Sound View Press. 915. 1999.
- 4.Indianapolis News. September 11, 1959. “Clara Dieman, Sculptor, Dead in New Mexico.”
- 5.Burnet, Mary Quick. Art and Artists of Indiana. Century. 395. 1921. 9780548848074.
- 6.Oxford University Press. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2006. 9780199899913.
- 7.Indianapolis News. October 10, 1916. “Biddy Tablet at Shortridge.”
- 8.Judith Vale Newton. Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana's Historical Women Artists. Historical Society Press. 269–271. 2004.
- 9.John Powers. Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Woodmont Books. 136. 2000.
- 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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