John Rogers CLAGUE
1928–2004, USA

John Clague was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended his first art classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and at the Cleveland Institute of Art, obtaining the Victor Spadea Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art Scholarship, Mary Suggett Ranney Scholarship and Yale Norfolk Fellowship; graduating in 1950. He exhibited his work many times at the Cleveland Museum of Art May Shows. Some of the artistic luminaries with whom he studied are Edris Eckhardt, Walter Sinz, and William McVey. He became an instructor in sculpture at the CIA in 1956, and continued there until 1971. He won the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1967, and participated in many prestigious exhibitions around the state and the country. Won many commissions for his pieces during his long and successful career. Known early on as a talented painter and writer, Clague became devoted to sculpture while studying with McVey, to whom he was for some time an assistant. His work varies greatly in range from very traditional modern bronzes to constructions in metals that are mobile and have an auditory function.

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