SIGNED CLAIRE WYMAN MODERN ENAMEL COPPER ART TILE—MIDCENTURY PAINTING

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SIGNED CLAIRE WYMAN MODERN ENAMEL COPPER ART TILE—MIDCENTURY PAINTING:
$265.00

Listed is a Mid Century Modern Enamel on Copper Art Plate/Tile Signed by Claire Wyman. Great work of art from well known mid century artist in great condition with minor surface wear and crazing. Normal age appropriate surface wear. Minor enamel wear along edging. Beautiful collectors plate/tile with a tactile design and surface.

Measurements: 9\" x 9\"

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Claire Wyman’s Obituary from the San Diego Union Tribune:

(The following article was written by Jack Williams, staff writer for the Union – Tribune of San Diego, California, and published October 12, 2006, as an obituary for Claire Wyman)

“Nearly everything Clara (Claire) Wyman experienced evoked some kind of an artistic image.

She could create on a small scale, as she did with embroidered gloves, buttons, earrings and butterfly-covered bedspreads. Or she could turn the wall of a church into a bigger-than-life statement of her faith.

In the 1950s, she created her most ambitious work at an evangelical church in Cleveland: an 8-foot-high depiction in oils of Christ, attired in a flowing scarlet robe and standing atop a globe, reaching out to the congregation with nail-scarred hands.

The mural “flowed out of my hands as if by divine guidance,” she said in a 1999 publication of the Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church. “It had great spiritual meaning to me.”

Mrs. Wyman, who settled in Rancho Bernardo in 1967, expressed her artistic bent in recent years by creating banners for the Village Gallery of Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church.

“Artistically, she could do just about anything,” said a niece, Alice Chojnacki. “She had a passion for color and design, especially in copper and enamel.”

Chojnacki said Mrs. Wyman died of complications from a broken hip and dementia Sept. 24 at Rancho Bernardo\'s Remington Club. She was 91.

Mrs. Wyman may have been best known for creating and marketing her copper and enamel paintings and designs.

“She showed them at art shows in New York and made some for General Motors,” Chojnacki said.

One of Mrs. Wyman\'s proudest moments was selling a piece depicting an underwater scene to Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States.

“He bought it at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., for his granddaughter\'s wedding,” Chojnacki said.

Mrs. Wyman served on the arts forum committee of Rancho Bernardo Presbyterian Church, a role that involved selecting works for display in the church gallery.

She also displayed her work in the gallery several times.

Mrs. Wyman, the daughter of Swiss immigrants, was born Clara Alice Wyttenbach on July 5, 1915, in Cleveland.

She attended the Cleveland Institute of Art, and also earned a bachelor\'s degree at Case Western Reserve University.

Mrs. Wyman sold her art under the professional name Claire Wytt, but her primary career was education. She taught art to high school students in Cleveland. She married Carl Wyman, a middle school math and science teacher, in 1944.

She moved to Rancho Bernardo when her husband, who was 14 years her senior, retired.

Before her husband died in 1983, Mrs. Wyman joined him in cruises throughout the world. They also visited nearly every state in the union.

Each trip, it seemed, would inspire a painting or a work of art.

“She liked to sit and paint what she saw,” Chojnacki said.