biography of Claire MAHL (1912-1988)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: San Francisco, CA

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: Cranbrook Acad. Art, with Wallace Mitchell.

Exhibited: WMAA, 1946; PAFA; Detroit Art Inst., Mich.; Walker Art Ctr., Minneapolis; SFMA; Drawing Exhib., MoMA

Work: Univ. Gal., Univ. Minn.; Minneapolis Inst. Art. Commissions: black & white photographic collage, Bronx State Hosp., NY, 1971; masonite outdoor mural, San Francisco Art Comn.

Comments: Positions: actg. dir., Univ. Art Gal., Univ. Minn., 1952-55; dir., Stanford Univ. Gal., 1962. Teaching: instr. drawing & painting, San Francisco Art Inst., 1957-; instr. drawing, Stanford Univ., 1957-58 & 1968-69.

Sources: WW73; Al Wong, Portrait of Ivan (film), 1968.