American sculptor, educator (1900–1971)
Dorothea "Miss Dee" Henrietta Denslow (December 14, 1900 – April 26, 1971) was an American sculptor, and educator. She was the founder of the Clay Club (later known as the SculptureCenter ) in New York City.[ 1]
Biography
Dorothea Henrietta Denslow was born on December 14, 1900, in New York City, to parents Cornelia Julia (née Smith) and Henry Carey Denslow . Her father was a bird taxidermist , and painter who worked as a natural history curator at the Brooklyn Children's Museum , and she art studied under him. At age fourteen she started exhibiting her artwork. She was partly raised in Hartford, Connecticut , and in 1923, she was a member of the Connecticut Academy Fine Arts.[ 2] [ 3]
Denslow attended the Art Students League of New York .[ 4] [ 5]
In 1928, Denslow founded the Clay Club (later known as the SculptureCenter ), which was her studio and it was also used as a meeting space and young artists workshop founded at 1841/2 Brooklyn Ave. in Brooklyn , initially in the basement of the Brooklyn Children's Museum.[ 3] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] Elsa Hutzler ,[ 11] Muriel Kelsey , George Gerny , Howard Mandel , Nina Winkel , Yvonne Forrest ,[ 8] Beonne Boronda ,[ 10] Sahl Swarz ,[ 7] Louise Nevelson ,[ 12] Frank Eliscu , Harry Holtzman ,[ 13] Ibram Lassaw .[ 5] [ 14] [ 15]
At the time of her retirement in 1962, the Clay Club had some seventy-two cats living there.[ 14] Mountainhome, Pennsylvania . Denslow died at the age of 70 on April 26, 1971, in a hospital in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania .[ 1]
References
^ a b "Dorothea H. Denslow Dies at 70; Sculptor Founded Center Here" . The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved February 22, 2025 .^ "Denslow, Dorothea Henrietta". American Art Directory R. R. Bowker . 1923. p. 497 – via Google Books . ^ a b Cogan, Alice (April 15, 1928). "Teaches; Never Went to School" . Brooklyn Eagle . Retrieved February 25, 2025 – via Newspapers.com . ^ "A Finding Aid to the Dorothea Henrietta Denslow papers, 1833–circa 1950" . Archives of American Art . Retrieved February 22, 2025 .^ a b Duncan, Erika (December 18, 1994). "Encounters; 'I Want My Sculpture to Be Only Its Self,' Says Ibram Lassaw" . The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved February 22, 2025 . ^ Wilson, Maya (October 23, 2023). "The Clay Club: Shaping Sculptural Legacies in Greenwich Village" . Village Preservation . Retrieved February 22, 2025 . ^ a b Davis, Anita Price (November 12, 2008). New Deal Art in North Carolina: The Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators ISBN 978-0-7864-3779-5 ^ a b Donohue, Frank (July 8, 1946). "The Clay Club" . Life 101– 102, 105. ISSN 0024-3019 . ^ "Young Sculptors Open Exhibition of Work in Clay" . Brooklyn Eagle . Retrieved February 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .^ a b "Sculptors' Clay Just 'MudDugFromaTub' . Brooklyn Eagle . Retrieved February 24, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .^ "Preserving the Legacies of Women Artists" . BMA Stories . October 2, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2025 .^ Lisle, Laurie (March 8, 2016). Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life ISBN 978-1-5040-3061-8 ^ Campbell, Lawrence (1954). "Lassaw makes a sculpture" . ARTnews . ARTnews Associates. pp. 24– 25. ^ a b Wren, Christopher S. (March 19, 2001). "Furor Over an Artists' Haven; Sculpture Center Plans to Move, Shedding Students and Studios" . The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved February 24, 2025 . ^ "Events in the Realm of Art Here and Elsewhere; Out of Town In Pittsburgh. In Newark. In Chicago" The New York Times ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved February 24, 2025 – via The Times Machine.
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