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Zeisler, Claire, 1903-1991 print view role Collector Artist dates 1903-1991 city Chicago state IL other cities Cincinnati, OH; sex F historical notes Claire Zeisler was a collector and Fiber artist in Chicago who died in 1991. In the 1930s, she acquired paintings by European modernists including Picasso, Miro, and Klee and objects from many tribal cultures, among them African sculptures, tantric art, ancient Peruvian textiles, and more than 300 American Indian baskets. Later, she added works by postwar American artists, from Franz Kline to Robert Rauschenberg and Jenny Holzer. In 1943, Mrs. Zeisler divorced her first husband, Harold Florsheim, an heir to the Florsheim Shoe Company. She married Ernest Zeisler, a physician, and author, in 1946. Zeisler studied with Alexander Archipenko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and weaver Bea Swartchild at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Zeisler created loom weavings and later turned them into free-standing fiber sculptures. decades of activity 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 updated 03/22/2024 12:09:29 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Claire Zeisler papers, 1903-1992. see details... Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200 Oral history interview with Claire Zeisler, 1981 June. see details... National Portrait Gallery Library Smithsonian American Art Museum Artist file: Zeisler, Claire , 1903- see details... Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library Smithsonian Institution Artist file: Zeisler, Claire , 1903- see details... see also: Florsheim, Harold M. «  back