Clara Louise Bell
Clara Louise Bell was an American miniature painter.Bell was born in 1886 in Newton Falls, Ohio. She went to school at the Cleveland School of Art and at the Art Students League of New York. While at the Art Students League, she studied under Edith Stevenson Wright and Henry Keller.Career
She painted miniatures. She was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She was awarded the Penton Medal in 1919 by the Cleveland Museum of Art. She married Bela Janowsky around 1936. She painted portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover for the collection of American presidents at Butler Institute of American Art.Later life and legacy
She died in 1978.Notable collections
