About: Clara Sorensen

Clara Barth Leonard Sorenson Dieman (1877–1959) was an American sculptor, painter and teacher from Indianapolis, Indiana. Sorensen studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and was a student of several well-known artists including William Forsyth, Alexander Archipenko and Lorado Taft, who she worked on Fountain of Time with. She also worked with Victor Brenner. Between 1907 and 1916, Leonard returned to the John Herron Art Institute to teach introductory sculpture classes. In 1917, she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had been a student of Taft's, and she later studied at Columbia University as well.