Vera Klement
Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023) was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.
Also recorded as Vera Klemment
Vera Klement
- Born
- 1929 · Gdańsk.
- Died
- 2023 · Evanston.
- Nationality
- Poland · United States
- Occupation
- artist · painter · printmaker
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- Polish · English
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Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023) was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Klement graduated from Cooper Union in 1950. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1995. In 1973, Klement was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow. In 1987, she showed art at the Renaissance Society. She was the 2003 visiting artist at Goshen College, and 2007 artist in residence at Indiana State University. There is an eleven-minute American documentary film about her, titled Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010). Her work is in the collection of the state of Illinois, the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, and the Krannert Art Museum. The Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. holds the Vera Klement papers.
Personal life
Personal life
Born Vera Klementovna Shapiro in Danzig, Klement was a Holocaust survivor. She later lived in Chicago. She was married twice, first to Werner Torkanowsky, an Israeli violinist, and later to composer and conductor Ralph Shapey. Klement died on October 20, 2023, of complications from cancer and COVID-19 in Evanston, Illinois.
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1929
Vera Klement born at Gdańsk.
2023
Vera Klement died at Evanston.
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Vera Klement received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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- 1.Goldsborough, Bob. Vera Klement, 'uniquely Chicago artist,' dies at 93. Chicago Tribune. 2023-12-05.
- 2.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Vera Klement.
- 3.Swartz, Mark. Painted From Memory: Vera Klement's Prolific Retirement. Chicago Reader. May 27, 1999.
- 4.Gardner-Huggett, Joanna. Artemisia Challenges the Elders: How a Women Artists' Cooperative Created a Community for Feminism and Art Made by Women. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 33. 2. 55–75. 2012. 0160-9009.
- 5.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Vera Klement.
- 6.Renaissancesociety.org. The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum: Vera Klement, A Retrospective: 1953-1986. 1987-04-25.
- 7.Marvin Bartel. Visiting Artists at Goshen College. Goshen.edu.
- 8.Indiana State University. Indiana State University: Art Gallery.
- 9.Kukulka, Alexandra. Someone You Should Know: Wonjung Bae.
- 10.savage, sophia. Silverdocs Fest 2011 Slate Opener is Swell Season, Closes with Revenge of Electric Car. May 26, 2011.
- 11..illinois.gov. James R. Thompson Center : Permanent Art Collection.
- 12.Vera Klement Exhibit, The Kentucky Center for the Arts. www.kentuckycenter.org.
- 13.Krannert Art Museum. Collections Search. collection.kam.illinois.edu.
- 14.Vera Klement papers | AAA.klemvera | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution. sova.si.edu.
- 15.Sandomir, Richard. Vera Klement, Painter Who Saw Both Beauty and Evil, Dies at 93. January 29, 2024.
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