Claire Van Vliet

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Claire Van Vliet
Born1933
Ottawa, Ontario
EducationB.A., San Diego State College (1952), M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School (1954)
Occupation(s)Artist, illustrator, typographer

Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario) [1] is an artist, illustrator, printmaker, and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. She received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1989. She is known for her innovative use of dyed paper pulp to create illustrations. She is also known for her long career in artist's books. She was teaching at the museum school in Philadelphia in 1961

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Biography

Born in Canada, Van Vliet emigrated to the United States after the death of her parents. [2] She arrived in California where she was raised by her aunt. [3] Van Vliet graduated from San Diego High School in 1949, [4] in 1952 she graduated from San Diego State College with a Bachelor of Arts, and in 1954 from Claremont Graduate School with a Master of Fine Arts. [5] In 1955 she moved to Europe, shortly after her first publications, then returned to the United States in 1957. She worked for John Anderson of Lanston Monotype Company in Philadelphia before moving to Madison, Wisconsin. She made several trips back to Europe and continued her education in hand typesetting and compositing. She taught drawing and printmaking classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Philadelphia Museum College of Art from 1965 to 1966. In 1967 she established a typographic workshop in Madison, Wisconsin. The Janus Press has been based in Newark, Vermont since Van Vliet settled there in 1966. [6] Van Vliet "pioneered a technique of using the colored-paper pulp to create illustrations." [7]

Works in collections

Van Vliet's work is in the collection of the Fleming Museum of Art, [8] the National Gallery of Art, [9] the National Museum of Women in the Arts, [2] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, [10] the Philadelphia Museum of Art, [11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [12] and the Walker Art Center. [13]

Janus Press

The Janus Press was founded in 1955. [14] It was named by Van Vliet for the Roman god Janus. [15] The press publishes collaborative works by contemporary writers, papermakers, printmakers and artists, including Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, W. R. Johnson, Galway Kinnell, John le Carré, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, W. D. Snodgrass, Ruth Fine, Lois K. Johnson, Susan Johanknecht, Jerome Kaplan, Ray Metzker, Peter Schumann, Helen Siegl, Kathryn Clark (Twinrocker), Amanda Degener, Mary Lyn Nutting, Katie MacGregor, and Bernie Vinzani. [16] In 2005 the 50th anniversary of the press was celebrated by an exhibition entitled Beauty in Use: 50 Years of the Janus Press at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College. The 60th anniversary was celebrated with an exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book. [17]

Honors

Publications

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Claire Van Vliet | Artist Profile". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Claire Van Vliet". National Academy of Design. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  4. ↑ "Wall of Honor 1998-1999 - Claire Van Vliet - Class of 1949" (PDF). sandiegohighschoolalumni.org. p. 6.
  5. ↑ Gilman, Amy; Korenic, Lyn; Honn, Tracy; Simon, Anna (15 April 2021). "Claire Van Vliet". Oral Histories from UW-Madison. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  6. ↑ Fine, Ruth. (2006) The Janus Press, Fifty Years : Catalogue Raisonné for 1991–2005 : indexes for 1955–2005 / Burlington, Vermont: University of Vermont Libraries.
  7. ↑ Chiang-Waren, Xian. "Eyewitness: Bookmaker Claire Van Vliet". Seven Days. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "Claire Van Vliet - Prints". Fleming Museum of Art. University of Vermont. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "Untitled". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "Claire Van Vliet". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  11. ↑ "Claire Van Vliet". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  12. ↑ "Claire Van Vliet". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  13. ↑ "Janus Press". Bennington Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  14. ↑ Fine, Ruth. (1975) The Janus Press, 1955–75 : catalogue raisonné / [Burlington, Vt.] : Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University
  15. 1 2 Janus Press. (2003?) Janus Press checklist 1992– / Newark, Vt. : Janus Press.
  16. ↑ "Janus Press at Sixty by SFCBook". SFCBook. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  17. ↑ "Claire Van Vliet". John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "Typographer and founder of Janus Press Claire Van Vliet to be presented with Goudy Award Nov. 2". www.rit.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-03.

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