Vera Klement

Vera Klement (December 14, 1929 – October 20, 2023)[1] was an American artist, and Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.[2]

Education and career

Klement graduated from Cooper Union in 1950. She taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1995.[3]

In 1973, Klement was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, one of the Midwest's first feminist Cooperative Galleries located in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

She was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow.[5]

In 1987, she showed art at the Renaissance Society.[6] She was the 2003 visiting artist at Goshen College,[7] and 2007 artist in residence at Indiana State University.[8]

There is an eleven-minute American documentary film about her, titled Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2010).[9][10]

Her work is in the collection of the state of Illinois,[11] the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts,[12] and the Krannert Art Museum.[13]

The Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. holds the Vera Klement papers.[14]

Personal life

Born Vera Klementovna Shapiro in Danzig, Klement was a Holocaust survivor.[15]

She later lived in Chicago. She was married twice, first to Werner Torkanowsky, an Israeli violinist, and later to composer and conductor Ralph Shapey.[1]

Klement died on October 20, 2023, of complications from cancer and COVID-19 in Evanston, Illinois.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Goldsborough, Bob (2023-12-05). "Vera Klement, 'uniquely Chicago artist,' dies at 93". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. ↑ "Vera Klement". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  3. ↑ Swartz, Mark (May 27, 1999). "Painted From Memory: Vera Klement's Prolific Retirement". Chicago Reader. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  4. ↑ Gardner-Huggett, Joanna (2012). "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. doi:10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055. ISSN 0160-9009. JSTOR 10.5250/fronjwomestud.33.2.0055. S2CID 142825769. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Vera Klement". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  6. ↑ "The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum: Vera Klement, A Retrospective: 1953-1986". Renaissancesociety.org. 1987-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  7. ↑ Marvin Bartel. "Visiting Artists at Goshen College". Goshen.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  8. ↑ "Indiana State University: Art Gallery". Indiana State University. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  9. ↑ Kukulka, Alexandra. "Someone You Should Know: Wonjung Bae".
  10. ↑ savage, sophia (May 26, 2011). "Silverdocs Fest 2011 Slate Opener is Swell Season, Closes with Revenge of Electric Car".
  11. ↑ "James R. Thompson Center : Permanent Art Collection". .illinois.gov. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
  12. ↑ "Vera Klement Exhibit, The Kentucky Center for the Arts". www.kentuckycenter.org. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  13. ↑ Krannert Art Museum. "Collections Search". collection.kam.illinois.edu. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Vera Klement papers | AAA.klemvera | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution". sova.si.edu.
  15. ↑ Sandomir, Richard (January 29, 2024). "Vera Klement, Painter Who Saw Both Beauty and Evil, Dies at 93" – via NYTimes.com.
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