Grace Clements

Early life and education Clements was born in Oakland, California on June 8, 1905. She studied art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson in New York City from 1925 to 1930. With this group, she presented her artwork in a "landmark" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in December 1935, and then at the Brooklyn Museum the next summer. She worked for the Works Progress Administration. Her works include the 1942 murals and ceramic tiles in the Long Beach Airport, collectively titled Communication (Aviation and Navigation); The History of Aviation, a Federal Art Project fresco painted with Jean Goodwin Ames at Charles A. Lindbergh Middle School in Long Beach; a mosaic at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium (then the largest cut-tile mosaic in the United States); She contributed to Arts and Architecture and Art Front magazines, and also did radio commentary including a weekly program on the Bay Area radio station KPFA. Later in her life, Clements married astrologer Robert DeLuce and became involved in astrology herself.

Clements died on January 10, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. and the Wolfsonian-FIU museum.

Exhibitions Jake Zeitlin's Book Shop, Los Angeles, California (solo, 1930) An Exhibition of Modern Paintings by Grace Clements, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (predecessor to Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (solo, 1931) Oakland Art Gallery (group, 1932) Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (group, 1944)