Clara Seley

Clara Seley Biography

Clara Kalnitsky Seley (July 15, 1905 - July 2, 2003) was an American artist and sculptor.

Biography

Born in Kiev, she came to the United States in 1911 and was raised and educated in Newark, New Jersey. Following a career in modeling and later in the rare book departments of Bamberger's department store in Newark and Brentano's Bookstore in New York, she met and married (May 20, 1919 - June 23, 1983), an American sculptor, in 1942.

The couple moved to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 1946, where Jason would teach under a U. S. Government grant and have three solo exhibitions at the Centre d'Art (in 1946, 1948, and 1949), along with several commissions. Clara, a self-taught artist, taught dance while in Haiti and began sculpting during this period. Working primarily in wood, mainly Haitian mahogany, as well as bronze and aluminum, her sculptures mostly took the forms of abstract torsos and heads.

Following their years in Haiti, the couple lived in Paris and Germany. Clara was first represented in the United States by Kraushaar Galleries in New York. Jason taught at Hofstra University from 1953 to 1965. Clara would later work in various media, including pastel and watercolor, in the 1940s and 1950s. She received artist's fellowships to Yaddo in 1987 and 1990.

Jason, who received his BA in sculpture at Cornell University in 1940, began teaching sculpture there in 1966, becoming chair of the Department of Art (1968-73) and dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (1980-83). Clara would give several of her artworks to Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Among their other gifts to the Johnson Museum were portraits of the couple by Waldo Peirce and Lotte Jacobi.

Selected solo exhibitions

Shainen-Stern Gallery, 1959
Roko Gallery, 1964
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1973
Gallery One-Twenty-One, Ithaca, NY, 1974
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 1988

Exhibitions with Jason Seley

Country Art Gallery, 1961, 1965
Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 1976
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1977

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