biografia di Cleora Clark WHEELER (XX)

Birth place: Austin, MN

Addresses: Saint Paul, MN

Profession: Designer, collector, engraver, painter, illuminator, writer

Studied: Univ. Minnesota (B.A. & cert. eng. drafting & advanced eng. drafting, 1943); NY School Fine & Applied Art; J. Gauthier.

Exhibited: Am. Bookplate Soc. Ann., 1916-25; Avery Lib., Columbia, 1916-25; Grolier Club, NYC, 1916-25; Bookplate Assn. Int. 1926-36; Lg. Am. Pen Women, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1950; New York Times Book Fair, 1937; U.S. Nat. Mus., 1946; St. Paul Inst.; Minneapolis Inst. Art, 1922, 1923; St. Paul Pub. Lib., 1937 (solo); Paul Elder Gal., San Francisco, 1926 (solo); Nat. Collection Fine Arts, Smithsonian Inst., 1946-66; Bookplates, 14th Ann. Int. Congress Int. Ex Libris Soc. Elsinore, Denmark, 1972. Awards: first award in design, Minnesota State Soc., 1913; Univ. Minnesota, 1937; Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women, 1942, 1950; silver chalice achievement award, Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1952.

Member: Nat. Lg. Am. Pen Women (pres. Minnesota Branch, 1940-42; state pres., 1942-44; nat. chmn. design, 1944-46; nat. chmn. heraldic art, 1954-56 & nat. chmn. illum. & inscriptions, 1964-66); Am Soc. Bookplate Collectors & Des.; Bookplate Assn. Int.

Work: LOC; Yale Club, NYC; Minnesota State Hist. Soc.; Minneapolis Inst. Art; brass wall plaque, library, Kappa Kappa Gamma House, Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis; complete collection of bookplates in library at Brown Univ.; Columbia Univ.; Harvard Univ.; NYPL; pub. libs., St. Paul, Minneapolis, Los Angeles; Am. Lib., Paris; Am. Assn. Univ. Women, Wash., DC; Am. Soc. Bookplate Collectors and Des.; Bookplate Assn. Int.; Hist. Soc., St. Paul, MN; bookplate reproduced in The Book of Artist's Own Bookplates," by R.T. Saunders."

Comments: Publications: author, On Behalf of Accuracy, Americans Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers Yearbook, 1933; author, series of six articles on bookplates, Minnesota Med. (July-Dec.,1957), reprinted in Univ. Minnesota Bulletin (July, 1972). Collection: bookplates.

Sources: WW73; WW47.