Clyde O. DeLand
| Clyde Osmer DeLand (or Deland, De Land) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 27, 1872 Union City, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | March 27, 1947 (aged 74) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting and Illustration |
Clyde O. DeLand (December 27, 1872 – March 27, 1947, also spelled Deland or De Land) was an American painter and illustrator. Though he is relatively unknown today, DeLand was one of the first graduates of Howard Pyle's class at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University) alongside names like N.C. Wyeth. His paintings hang in many galleries around the world and his illustrations have remained in print in illustrated editions of such works as Charles Chesnutt's The Wife of His Youth.
Clyde Osmer DeLand was born in Union City, Pennsylvania to Theodore and Nancy Howard DeLand, of Pennsylvania. Theodore Deland apparently worked as a machinist around the time that Clyde was born.
After graduating from Rochester High School, Clyde DeLand enrolled at the University of Rochester in 1891 but stayed for only a year. In that time, he also joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. In a later profile on the artist, fellow Delta Upsilon brother Fullerton L. Waldo suggests that "while in Rochester an alternative career proposed itself to DeLand in the cognate art of music...DeLand practised (sic) and studied the piano till he became a really proficient concert pianist and teacher, and only by the narrowest margin did he miss electing music as his permanent calling." This seems to be corroborated by a record of a solo performance of "War Veteran's March" given by young DeLand following the address of Lieutenant-Governor Edward F. Jones at the Eighth Annual Convention of the Woman's Relief Corps in Rochester in 1890.
DeLand enrolled in the Drexel Institute in 1894, the same year that artist Howard Pyle began his teaching career there. It would seem, as his career would later attest, that DeLand was inspired by Pyle's pedagogical emphasis on historical verisimilitude in art. As O'Hara relates that during modeling sessions at Drexel it was not uncommon that "[Pyle] brought in period artifacts and props to create the feel, and even the smell, of another time and to stress the importance of accuracy in details." When Pyle founded the School of Illustration at Drexel in 1896, DeLand was among the first class under the new cirriculum, which placed importance on preparing and promoting students for publication.
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