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- BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Malvern, Ohio, forty miles south of Akron, Clyde Singer became known for his regionalist paintings in oil and watercolor of people at carnivals, standing in bars, on windy street corners, celebrating holidays, or looking at pictures in a gallery.
Clyde Singer Biography
Clyde Singer was born in the small eastern Ohio town of Malvern in
1908. He grew up in the rural hills of Ohio and attended the local schools.
Clyde was the youngest of four sons and two sisters. He had an early
interest in art and entered the school at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Art
after high school. In 1933, Singer received a scholarship to the Arts
Students? League in New York City where he studied under the direction of
John Stuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton. Singer exhibited at the Whitney
Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. the Chicago Art
Institute, the National Academy of Design, the Butler Institute of American
Art and the Massillon Museum. He worked primarily in oils and water
colors. Singer is known as a regionalist, focusing his work on rural and small
town life in his home state of Ohio and around his hometown of Malvern; he
also executed work based on his time in New York City. In 1940, Singer
became the Assistant director of the Butler Institute of American Art in
Youngstown, Ohio and, except for military service during World War II,
remained there until his death in 1999. His work is included in the
collections of many museums around the country. The Massillon Museum
has fourteen works by Singer in its permanent collection.
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1908 - 1999 (90 years)
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