Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997

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b. Coos Bay, Ore., 1908; d. Venice, Calif., Oct. 23, 1997.

From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122459083

Falkenstein is known primarily as a glass sculptor. Resident of Venice, California.

From the description of Allegory #4 [&] Allegory #5 [graphic] / Claire Falkenstein. 1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205549

Sculptor; Venice, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with Claire Falkenstein, 1965 Apr. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83456904

Claire Falkenstein, 1908-1997, sculptor of Venice, Calif.

From the description of Oral history interview with Claire Falkenstein, 1995 Mar. 2-21 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81906269

Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997) was a sculptor and painter from Venice, Calif.

Falkenstein was born in Coos Bay, Or. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and lived in Paris in the 1950s to pursue her art career, where her association with critic Michel Tapié and his group Art Autre developed into many commissions including the gates at the home of her longtime friend Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy. She returned to Venice, Calif. in 1960. During her career she created over four thousand sculptures, paintings, and drawings, and became known for her innovative and often controversial abstract public art. Among major commissions were the windows for St. Basil's Catholic Church, and fountains at California Federal Savings (now destroyed) and California State University.

From the description of Claire Falkenstein papers, circa 1914-1997, bulk 1940-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821091

Sculptor and painter; Venice, Calif. Died 1997.

Falkenstein was born in Coos Bay, Oregon. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and lived in Paris in the 1950s to pursue her art career, where her association with critic Michel Tapié and his group Art Autre developed into many commissions including the gates at the home of her longtime friend Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy. She returned to Venice, Calif. in 1960. During her career she created over four thousand sculptures, paintings, and drawings, and became known for her innovative and often controversial abstract public art. Among major commissions were the windows for St. Basil's Catholic Church, and fountains at California Federal Savings (now destroyed) and California State University.

From the description of Claire Falkenstein papers, [ca. 1930-1997.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81163328

Sculptor and painter; Venice, Calif. Died 1997.

Falkenstein was born in Coos Bay, Oregon. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and lived in Paris in the 1950s to pursue her art career, where her association with critic Michel Tapié and his group Art Autre developed into many commissions including the gates at the home of her longtime friend Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy. She returned to Venice, Calif. in 1960. During her career she created over four thousand sculptures, paintings, and drawings, and became known for her innovative and often controversial abstract public art. Among major commissions were the windows for St. Basil's Catholic Church, and fountains at California Federal Savings (now destroyed) and California State University.

From the description of Claire Falkenstein papers, circa 1914-1997, bulk 1940-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316462

Sculptor and painter; Venice, Calif. Died 1997.

Falkenstein was born in Coos Bay, Oregon. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley and lived in Paris in the 1950s to pursue her art career, where her association with critic Michel Tapié and his group Art Autre developed into many commissions including the gates at the home of her longtime friend Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy. She returned to Venice, Calif. in 1960. During her career she created over four thousand sculptures, paintings, and drawings, and became known for her innovative and often controversial abstract public art. Among major commissions were the windows for St. Basil's Catholic Church, and fountains at California Federal Savings (now destroyed) and California State University.

From the description of Claire Falkenstein papers, [ca. 1930-1997.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 458413519

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn Olive Thompson Cowell papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Edward Biberman papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Falkenstein, Claire : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Katharine Kuh papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Photographs of Southern California artists / Arnold Chanin, photographer Archives of American Art
creatorOf Dorr Bothwell papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Research material on Martha Jackson Archives of American Art
referencedIn Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
creatorOf Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997. Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
creatorOf Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997. Allegory #4 [&] Allegory #5 [graphic] / Claire Falkenstein. Archives of American Art
referencedIn [Photographs of artists taken by Mimi Jacobs, photographer] Archives of American Art
referencedIn Betty Hoag McGlynn papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Dorr Bothwell papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Claire Falkenstein papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn William Hemmerdinger papers, 1871, 1941-2007 Getty Research Institute
creatorOf Katharine Kuh papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Marian Gore "Art Scene" interviews and papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Frans Wildenhain papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997. Claire Falkenstein : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000 [graphic]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
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creatorOf Oral history interview with Claire Falkenstein Archives of American Art
referencedIn Oral history interview with Frank Lobdell Archives of American Art
creatorOf Molly Saltman "Art and Artists" interviews Archives of American Art
creatorOf Oral history interview with Claire Falkenstein Archives of American Art
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associatedWith Appel, Karel, 1921- person
associatedWith Biberman, Edward. person
associatedWith Bothwell, Dorr. person
associatedWith Chanin, Arnold, person
associatedWith Cowell, Olive Thompson, 1887-1984. person
associatedWith FALKENSTEIN, CLAIRE 1908 - person
associatedWith Francis, Sam, 1923-1994. person
associatedWith Frick Art Reference Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Gore, Marian L., person
associatedWith Hemmerdinger, William person
associatedWith Jackson, Martha Kellogg. person
associatedWith Jacobs, Mimi person
associatedWith Karlstrom, Paul J., person
associatedWith Kuh, Katharine. person
associatedWith Kuh, Katharine. person
associatedWith Lobdell, Frank, 1921- person
associatedWith Lusk, George, 1902- person
associatedWith McGlynn, Betty Hoag, person
associatedWith New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project. corporateBody
associatedWith Rand, Harry. person
associatedWith Saltman, Molly, 1915- person
associatedWith Stadler Gallery. corporateBody
associatedWith Still, Clyfford, 1904- person
associatedWith Tapie, Michel. person
associatedWith University of California, San Francisco. School of Fine Arts. corporateBody
associatedWith Wildenhain, Frans, 1905-1980. person
associatedWith Women in the Arts in Southern California Oral History Project. corporateBody
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California
France--Paris
California
California
France--Paris
France--Paris
France--Paris
California
France--Paris
California
California
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Art, American
Art
Artists
Federal aid to the arts
Painters
Sculptors
Sculptors
Women artists
Women artists
Women sculptors
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Birth 1908-07-22

Death 1997-10-23

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