The Cleveland School refers to the flourishing local arts community of Northeast Ohio during the period from 1910-1960. It was so named in 1928 by Elrick Davis, a journalist with the Cleveland Press

Cleveland Press

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. The Cleveland School was renowned for its watercolor painting

Watercolor painting

Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...

, and also included well-known printmakers, sculptors, and ceramists.

Artists of the Cleveland School were involved with the founding of the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art

Cleveland Institute of Art

The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. From 1891 until 1948 it was named Cleveland School of Art. During the Great Depression the school...

), the Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000...

, Cleveland Society of Artists

Cleveland Society of Artists

The Cleveland Society of Artists was a Cleveland, Ohio artists group founded in March, 1913 by George Adomeit and Charles Shackleton to continue the traditions of academic art. Both founders had been members of The Arts Club of Cleveland. The society was for many years a staunch rival to the...

, Kokoon Arts Club

Kokoon Arts Club

The Kokoon Arts Club, sometimes spelled Kokoon Arts Klub, was a Bohemian artists group founded in 1911 by Carl Moellman and William Sommer to promote Modernism in Cleveland, Ohio. Moellman had been a member of New York City's Kit Kat Club, which served as inspiration for Kokoon...

, and Cleveland

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's annual May Show.

Cleveland School artists include:

• George Adomeit
  George Adomeit
  George Gustav Adomeit was a German-born American painter and printmaker, and also co-founder and long-time president of the Caxton Company, a printing company that was bought by the Fetter Printing Company in 1955....
  
  
• Russell B. Aitken
• Whitney Atchley,
• Kenneth F. Bates
• Joseph Boersig
• August Biehle
  August Biehle
  August F. Biehle, Jr. was an American Modernist painter.-Early life:Biehle was Born in Cleveland, the son of Christina and August F. Biehle, Sr. Biehle trained as an apprentice decorator with his father for the firm of Rorimer Brooks. He went to Europe in 1903 to study painting in Paris and at...
  
  
• Lawrence Edwin Blazey
  Lawrence Edwin Blazey
  Lawrence Edwin Blazey was an American artist and teacher, listed in "Who's Who in American Art". Blazey attended the Cleveland School of Art, now the Cleveland Institute of Art, and later returned to lecture and teach at his alma mater...
  
  
• Alexander Blazys
• Paul Bogatay
• Charles E. Burchfield
  Charles E. Burchfield
  Charles Ephraim Burchfield was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes...
  
  
• Clarence H. Carter
• Claude Conover
• R. Guy Cowan
  R. Guy Cowan
  Reginald Guy Cowan was an American potter and designer. He founded Cowan Pottery and was a leading figure in the Cleveland School of artists....
  
  
• Paul Dominey
• Nora E. Dyer
• Harold Edward
• Edris (Edith Aline) Eckhardt
• W. Leroy Flint
• Carl Gaertner
  Carl Gaertner
  Carl Gaertner was an American artist.Gaertner was born in Cleveland in 1898 and remained there until his death in 1952. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, which was then called the Cleveland School of Art, from 1920–1923 and taught there from 1925-1952.Gaertner's subject matter varied,...
  
  
• Clement and Fern Giorgi
• Frederick Gottwald
  Frederick Gottwald
  Frederick Carl Gottwald was a traditionalist American painter who was influential in the development of the Cleveland School of art, sometimes called the "dean of Cleveland painters"...
  
  
• Doris Hall
• Harold W. Hunsicker
• A. Drexler Jacobson
• Joseph W. Jicha
• Max Kalish
• Henry Keller
  Henry Keller
  Henry George Keller was an American artist who led a generation of Ohio watercolor painters of the Cleveland School. Keller's students at the Cleveland School of Art and his Berlin Heights, Ohio summer school included Charles E. Burchfield, Paul Travis, and Frank N...
  
  
• Kalman Kubinyi
  Kálmán Kubinyi
  Kálmán Mátyás Béla Kubinyi was an influential etcher, engraver and enamelist and a member of the so-called Cleveland School, a number of relatively prominent artists in Northeast Ohio that existed from about 1910 to 1960.Kubinyi was a modernist whose interpretations of the machine age through “ash...
  
  
• Charles Lakovsky
• Hughie Lee-Smith
  Hughie Lee-Smith
  Hughie Lee-Smith was an American artist and teacher whose signature works were slightly surreal in mood, often featuring distant figures seen under vast skies in desolate urban settings.-Life:...
  
  
• Norman E. Magden
• Hermann Matzen
• Leza
  Leza McVey
  Leza Marie McVey , sometimes known as Sullivan, was an American studio potter.In 1932, she married the sculptor William Mozart McVey, also an artist. The couple lived and worked in many locations in Texas from 1935 to 1947.-Study:...
  
   and William McVey
• Carl Moellman
• Joseph Motto
• Charles Murphy
• Horace Potter
• Steven A. Rebeck
• Louis Rorimer
• Charles Louis Sallée
• Viktor Schreckengost
  Viktor Schreckengost
  Viktor Schreckengost was a noted American industrial designer and teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback...
  
  
• Marvin Smith (artist)
• Elizabeth Andersen Seaver
• Glen Moore and Elsa Vick Shaw
• William Sommer
  William Sommer
  William Sommer was an American Modernist painter.William Sommer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1867. He was largely self-taught, but received instruction early on from artist and commercial lithographer Julius Melchers...
  
  
• Esther Marshall Sills
• Walter Sinz
  Walter Sinz
  Walter A. Sinz was an American sculptor. His best known work was the Thompson Trophy. He was educated at the Cleveland School of Art, where he also taught from 1911 to 1952. In addition to his bronze and medal work, he designed figures for Cowan Pottery.-References:* from the Cleveland Museum of Art...
  
  
• Drew Smith
• Rolf Stoll
• Paul Travis
  Paul Travis
  Paul Bough Travis was an American artist of the Cleveland School....
  
  
• Abel and Alexander Warshawsky
• Frank N. Wilcox
  Frank N. Wilcox
  Frank Nelson Wilcox was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald.-Life:...
  
  
• Sandor Vago
  Sandor Vago
  -Biography:He was born in Hungary. After studying art in Budapest, Hungary, he completed his studies in Munich, Germany. Before World War I, the painter exhibited his artworks in Hungary as well as in other European countries, including Vienna, Austria and Venice, Italy. In 1921 he immigrated...
  
  
• Thelma Frazier Winter.