Clara Louise Bell
{{Short description|American painter}}
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| alma_mater = Cleveland School of Art, Art Students League of New York
| known_for = Miniature painting
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Clara Louise Bell (1886 – 1978) (also known as Clara Louise Janowsky) was an American miniature painter.
Early life and education
Bell was born in 1886 in Newton Falls, Ohio. She went to school at the Cleveland School of Art and at the Art Students League of New York.{{cite web|title=Clara Louise Bell|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=323|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=17 December 2015}} While at the Art Students League, she studied under Edith Stevenson Wright (1883–1975) and Henry Keller.{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author3=Lori Zabar|authorlink2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC&pg=PA276|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9|page=276}}
Career
She painted miniatures. She was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She was awarded the Penton Medal in 1919 by the Cleveland Museum of Art. She married sculptor Bela Janowsky in 1943.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=November 26, 1943 |title=Miss Sara L. Bell Wed to Sculptor; Miniature Painter Becomes the Bride of Bela Janowsky, Who Also Is an Artist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/11/26/archives/miss-sara-l-bell-wed-to-sculptor-miniature-painter-becomes-the.html |work=The New York Times |location= |access-date=November 11, 2022}} She painted portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover for the collection of American presidents at Butler Institute of American Art.Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
Later life and legacy
Notable collections
- Francine Serrano, 1924, watercolor on ivory, Smithsonian American Art Museum{{cite web|title=Francine Serrano|url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=1743|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=17 December 2015}}
- Laura Newell Veissi, 1925, watercolor on ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web|title=Laura Newell Veissi|url=http://metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/10134|website=The Collection Online|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=17 December 2015}}
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Category:People from Newton Falls, Ohio
Category:Art Students League of New York alumni
Category:American portrait miniaturists
Category:20th-century American painters