biography of Carolyn Gassen PLOCHMANN (1926)

Birth place: Toledo, OH

Addresses: Carbondale, IL

Profession: Painter

Studied: TMA Sch. Design, 1943-47; Univ. Toledo (B.A., 1947); State Univ. Iowa (M.F.A., 1949); with Alfeo Faggi, 1950; South. Ill. Univ., 1951-52.

Exhibited: Witte Mus, San Antonio, Tex, 1968 (solo); TMA, 1968 (solo); PAFA Ann., 1962; 164th Prints & Drawings Ann., PAFA, 1969; 52nd Ann. Mem. Exhib., Phila. WC Cl., 1969; Woodstock Artists Assn. 50th Ann., NY, 1969; Kennedy Galleries, Inc, NYC, 1970s. Awards: George W. Stevens fel., TMA, 1947-49; Tupperware Art Fund First Award, 1953; Emily Lowe Found. Competition Award, 1958.

Member: Silvermine Guild Artists; Woodstock Art Assn.; Phila. WC Cl.; Toledo Fedn. Art Socs.

Work: Selden Rodman Coll., Oakland, NJ; Evansville Mus. Arts & Sci., Ind.; Fleishmann Found. Coll., Cincinnati, OH; Butler Inst. Am. Art, Youngstown, OH. Commissions: mural, North Side Old Nat. Bank, Evansville, 1953.

Comments: Preferred media: oils, acrylics, graphics. Teaching: supvr. art, Allyn Training Sch., South. Ill. Univ., Carbondale, 1949-50. Publications: auth., University Portrait: Nine Paintings by Carolyn Gassan Plochmann (South. Ill. Univ. Press, 1959); auth., bk. rev., in: The Egyptian; auth., cover article, in: Prize-Winning Graphics, 1966.

Sources: WW73; Louise Bruner, Art notes," Toledo Blade, Oct 10, 1965; Donald Key, rev., In: Milwaukee J., June 18, 1969; Falk, Exh. Record Series.