Grace Clements (artist)
| Grace Clements | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 8, 1905 Oakland, California |
| Died | January 10, 1969 Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) |
Thayer Waldo (married 1938) |
Thayer Waldo (married 1938)
Grace Richardson Clements (1905–1969) was an American painter, mosaicist, and art writer. She was active as an artist in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Clements was born in Oakland, California on June 8, 1905. She studied art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson in New York City from 1925 to 1930. She moved to Los Angeles in 1930, settling in the neighborhood of Edendale. She taught art at the Chouinard Art Institute and Pasadena's Stickney Memorial School of Art. She had a 1931 solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in which 21 of her paintings were presented. In 1935, she became involved with a group of artists in Los Angeles known as the Post-Surrealists; other artists in the group included Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg. With this group, she presented her artwork in a "landmark" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in December 1935, and then at the Brooklyn Museum the next summer. In addition, she was the first of the group to lay out its theoretical underpinnings, which she did in the March 1936 article "New Content—New Form" in the journal Art Front, published by the American Artists' Congress. She was passionate about social justice and "adopted the theme of social engagement within an essentially Modernist vocabulary". She worked for the Works Progress Administration. Her works include the 1942 murals and ceramic tiles in the Long Beach Airport, collectively titled Communication (Aviation and Navigation);The History of Aviation, a Federal Art Project fresco painted with Jean Goodwin Ames at Charles A. Lindbergh Middle School in Long Beach; a mosaic at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium (then the largest cut-tile mosaic in the United States); and Reconsideration of Time and Space.
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