Vera Klement
{{Short description|American artist (1929–2023)}}
Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023){{Cite web |last=Goldsborough |first=Bob |date=2023-12-05 |title=Vera Klement, ‘uniquely Chicago artist,’ dies at 93 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/12/05/vera-klement-uniquely-chicago-artist-dies-at-93/ |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}} was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow. {{ Cite web | access-date = 2023-04-02 | publisher = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | url = https://www.gf.org/fellows/vera-klement/ | title = Vera Klement }}
Biography
Born Vera Klementovna Shapiro in Danzig, Klement graduated from Cooper Union in 1950. She taught at University of Chicago, from 1969 to 1995.{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/painted-from-memory/Content?oid=899335|title=Painted From Memory: Vera Klement's Prolific Retirement|last=Swartz|first=Mark|date=May 27, 1999|work= Chicago Reader |access-date=March 2, 2018}}
In 1973, Klement was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois.{{Cite journal|last=Joanna Gardner-Huggett|date=2012|title=Artemisia Challenges the Elders: How a Women Artists' Cooperative Created a Community for Feminism and Art Made by Women|journal=Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies|volume=33|issue=2|pages=55–75|doi=10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055|jstor=10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055|s2cid=142825769 }}
In 1987, she showed at the Renaissance Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Vera-Klement-A-Retrospective-1953-1986.104.html |title=The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum: Vera Klement, A Retrospective: 1953-1986 |publisher=Renaissancesociety.org |date=1987-04-25 |access-date=2011-12-18}}
She was 2003 visiting artist, at Goshen College,{{cite web|author=Marvin Bartel |url=http://www.goshen.edu/art/03/visitingArt/VisitngA.htm |title=Visiting Artists at Goshen College |publisher=Goshen.edu |access-date=2011-12-18}}
and 2007 artist in residence at Indiana State University.{{cite web|url=http://www.indstate.edu/artgallery/artists.htm |title=Indiana State University: Art Gallery |publisher= Indiana State University |access-date=2011-12-18}}
Her work is in the collection of the state of Illinois,{{cite web|url=http://www2.illinois.gov/cms/about/jrtc/pages/artcollection.aspx |title=James R. Thompson Center : Permanent Art Collection |publisher=.illinois.gov |access-date=2011-12-18}} The Kentucky Center for the Arts,{{Cite web|url=https://www.kentuckycenter.org/about/permanent-art-collection/vera-klement-exhibit|title=Vera Klement Exhibit, The Kentucky Center for the Arts|website=www.kentuckycenter.org|access-date=March 2, 2018}} and the Krannert Art Museum.{{Cite web|url=http://collection.kam.illinois.edu/4DACTION/HANDLECGI/CTN3|title=Collections Search|last=Krannert Art Museum|website=collection.kam.illinois.edu|access-date=March 2, 2018}}
Personal life
Klement lived in Chicago. She was married first to Israeli violinist Werner Torkanowsky and later to composer and conductor Ralph Shapey, but both marriages ended in divorce.
Klement died on October 20, 2023, of complications from cancer and COVID-19 in Evanston, Illinois.
References
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External links
- http://veraklement.com/
- http://www.printworkschicago.com/artists/klement/klement.htm
- http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/html/artistresults.asp?artist=1249&testing=true
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122842/http://www.fassbendergallery.com/artists/VeraKlement/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122842/http://www.fassbendergallery.com/artists/VeraKlement/statements.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140110100515/http://www.luc.edu/luma/flash/35_klement.html
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Category:20th-century American artists
Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:Polish emigrants to the United States