Mitch Attenson: Artists John & Sarah Clague Cleveland School sculpture & ceramics

Welcome to the home (Overlooking Euclid Creek Reservation) of artists John & Sarah Clague, the house is filled with their art work including 100s of ceramic pieces by Sarah

Please go to the Artist Archives of the Western reserve website to see Chuck Mintz’s short film of Sarah chronicling John’s career 

Other Cleveland school art work including Paul Travis watercolors

Antiques, books, "altered books", some sterling silver, 78s, furniture, shelving & useful things

The pictures speak for themselves!

So much to look at around the house!

Artist & CIA Professor John Clague

THE FOLLOWING IN QUOTES I HAVE COPIED FROM WIKIPEDIA "John Clague (1928–2004) was an American artist and sculptor.

Early life

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Clague studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1956 under Edris Eckhardt, Walter Sinz, Walter Midner, John Bergschneider, Julius Schmidt, and William McVey. He was awarded The Yale/Norfolk Fellowship and, after graduation, spent a year in Europe as a Catherwood Foundation Traveling Fellow. Clague taught sculpture at Oberlin College (1957–1961), and at the Cleveland Institute of Art (1956–1971), becoming chairman of the institute's sculpture department.

Career

Clague's sculptures have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in numerous "May Shows" at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1967. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art by six of his sculptures, including his 1960 bronze "Flower of Erebus" and his 1963 plexiglas "Progression in Black and White". He also has exhibits in the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Massachusetts, and the Williams College Museum of Art. His work is documented in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Clague is best known for these large sculptures: abstract forms in bronze, steel, and fiberglass. He used light, color and high polish to alter surface texture creating patterns that change as one walks around. Some of his works also produce sound as they gently move."

Ceramicist Sarah Clague studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, May Shows and gallerys around Cleveland since the 1950s