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Paintings By Claire McLean |
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Claire McLean, FOLK ARTIST
Claire McLean, founder and President of the Presidential Pet Museum, graduated from Bucknell University in 1955 with a degree in Art and English. Her first employment was with the N.Y. City Advertising agency, Cunningham and Walsh in the Art Dept. At that time she studied at the Art Students league in NYC. With a few shows in Dayton, Ohio and Warner Robins, Georgia she won a prestigious award from the Callaway Art Competition. Many years followed as a mother of four children, homemaker and breeder of Bouvier des Flandres and Portuguese Water Dogs, She had over 250 Champions to her credit. She wrote a definitive book on the Bouvier became an AKC judge of the Breed and started the Presidential Pet Museum stemming from her brief adventure to the White House to groom then President and Mrs. Reagan’s Bouvier dog, Lucky.
In 2007 the Museum moved from Lothian, to Annapolis, Md., and she found time to begin a series of paintings depicting the Presidents and the pets that came into the White House. The series brings insight into how the pets impacted the Presidents and the public’s perception of them. The style leans strongly into folk art, simplistic, with a simple story to tell. Her acrylic palette is basic colors and develops into more varied hues as they are needed. It is the only series of paintings of the Presidential Pets in existence. The main part of the Presidential Pet Museum is now at the Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the series of pet paintings are on exhibition there in 2008.
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