biography of Cliffe Dean EITEL (1909-?)

Birth place: Salt Lake City, UT

Addresses: Chicago, (1947); Northbrook, IL (1973)

Profession: Painter, designer

Studied: with Roy C. Eitel; Nat. Acad. Art; AIC; Inst. Design; also with Joseph Binder, Gyorgy Kepes, Hubert Ropp & Charles Wilimovsky.

Exhibited: Chicago Art Gld., 1945; LOC, 1946; Phila. Pr. Club, 1946; NAD, 1946; Mint Mus., 1946; Laguna Beach AA, 1946; Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, 1946; AIC, 1946, 1950; AIC; BM, 1950; in Germany with State Dept. Exhib., 1951; Benjamin Galleries, Chicago, 1956. Awards: Landscape in Motion, Artists Guild Chicago, 1945.

Member: Vanguard Pr. Group; Chicago Art Gld.; Northbrook Art League (design director, 1970-72); Northshore Art League; Renaissance Soc., Univ. Chicago.

Work: SAM. Commissions: four ceramic tile murals, Mercy Hospital, Canton, OH, 1956; two ceramic tile murals, Tampa (FL) Munic. Hospital, 1957; mural (oil), Flavorama Prods., Northfield, IL, 1959; ceramic tile mural, Augustinian Seminary, Olympia Fields, IL, 1959; two mosaic tile murals, St. Marys Hospital, Kankakee, IL, 1960.

Comments: Positions: art director, Swan Studios, Chicago, 1937-39; art director, Hanks & Assoc., Chicago, 1939-41; free lance designer & artist, Chicago, 1941-. Teaching: instructor abstract & modern art, Chicago Prof. School Art, 1941-43; demonstrator printmaking, Northbrook Public & Jr. H.S., 1971-72.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Alex Weaver, Evolution of a Cliffe Eitel Design," Am. Artist Magazine (1950); "Kunst des Gestaltens," Der Polygraph (Frankfurt, Germany, 1950); Clyde Walton, Historical Records, Illinois Lives (1969)."