Deike, Clara L. (1881-1964)
Dates
- Existence: 1881 - 1964
Parallel Names
- Deike, Clara Louise
Biography
Cleveland painter and teacher Clara L. Deike exhibited her paintings at the CMA May Shows with acceptances and prizes from 1922 to 1957. She won first prize five times in the 1920s. In addition to the May Shows, Deike exhibited at other venues in Cleveland, museums in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Columbus, Ohio. Deike was an art teacher and supervisor in Cleveland and Lakewood high schools for thirty years.
Clara Deike was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Cleveland by high school. She studied modern art for two years under Hans Hoffman in Munich and at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Chicago Institute of Art, Breckenridge Summer School of Art, and an art school on the island of Capri, Italy. In 1912 she was a founding member of the Women’s Art Club, which she headed in 1919-20. Deike traveled on painting trips to Africa, Europe and Mexico, where she studied with Diego Rivera. For some years she maintained a summer studio in Gloucester and studied with Ernest Thurn.
Clara L. Deike died in 1964. A retrospective was held at the Visxeboxse Galleries in Cleveland Heights in 1989. In 2005, after years of obscurity, a show was held in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, “Clara Deike: Unknown Paintings, 1918-1950.”
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