death_place nationality birth_date spouse article_title name
los angeles , california american june 8 , 1905 thayer waldo -lrb- married 1938 -rrb- grace clements -lrb- artist -rrb-
 grace clements
grace clements -lrb- artist -rrb-

grace richardson clements -lrb- 1905 -- 1969 -rrb- was an american painter , mosaicist , and art writer .
she was active as an artist in the 1930s and early 1940s .
clements was born in oakland , california on june 8 , 1905 .
she studied art under kenneth hayes miller and boardman robinson in new york city from 1925 to 1930 .
she moved to los angeles in 1930 , settling in the neighborhood of edendale .
she taught art at the chouinard art institute and pasadena 's stickney memorial school of art .
she had a 1931 solo show at the los angeles county museum of art in which 21 of her paintings were presented .
in 1935 , she became involved with a group of artists in los angeles known as the post-surrealists ; other artists in the group included lorser feitelson and helen lundeberg .
with this group , she presented her artwork in a `` landmark '' exhibition at the san francisco museum of art in december 1935 , and then at the brooklyn museum the next summer .
in addition , she was the first of the group to lay out its theoretical underpinnings , which she did in the march 1936 article `` new content -- new form '' in the journal `` art front '' , published by the american artists ' congress .
she was passionate about social justice and `` adopted the theme of social engagement within an essentially modernist vocabulary '' .
she worked for the works progress administration .
her works include the 1942 murals and ceramic tiles in the long beach airport , collectively titled `` communication -lrb- aviation and navigation -rrb- '' ; `` the history of aviation '' , a federal art project fresco painted with jean goodwin ames at charles a. lindbergh middle school in long beach ; a mosaic at the long beach municipal auditorium -lrb- then the largest cut-tile mosaic in the united states -rrb- ; and `` reconsideration of time and space '' .
clements married journalist thayer waldo in 1938 , and the couple moved to the bay area in the late 1940s .
in the 1940s , clements stopped working at a painter , and instead worked as an art critic .
she contributed to `` arts and architecture '' and `` art front '' magazines , and also did radio commentary including a weekly program on the bay area radio station kpfa .
later in her life , clements married astrologer robert deluce and became involved in astrology herself .
clements died on january 10 , 1969 , in los angeles .
her works are held by mills college , the oakland museum , and the wolfsonian-fiu .
