Clare romano biography

American printmaker and painter

Clare Romano (1922–2017) was an internationally known American printmaker and painter with works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and other major collections.^[1][2] As an advocate, innovator, and educator in the field of printmaking,^[3] Romano has co-authored in collaboration with her husband, John Ross, The Complete Printmaker (1972), The Complete Collagraph (1980), and several other printmaking manuals that have become standard texts for universities.

They founded their High Tide Press for artists books in 1991.

Biography

Romano earned her bachelor of fine arts degree in painting at Cooper Union School of Art in New York City from 1939 to 1943. She credits peers in her painting, drawing, and two-dimensional design classes, Morris Kantor, Sidney Delevante, and Carol Harrison, with havi