Alice Lauffer Lawrence

(Cleveland, Ohio, 1916 - 2008, Akron, Ohio)

North America, American

Alice Lauffer Lawrence earned a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1938 and continued her education at Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University. She taught art in Akron and Cleveland public schools and was listed in Marquis Who’s Who of Art Teachers in the Midwest and United States.

Lawrence worked in multiple media including watercolor and oil painting but is best known for her prints. Her genre scenes and portraiture reveal an engagement with European modernism, especially post-impressionism and cubism. An active participant in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s annual May Show from 1942 to 1967, she continued working into her 90s, sometimes on commercial assignments for B.F. Goodrich. Lawrence was a member of the Women’s Art League of Akron, Ohio. Her artworks are included in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown.

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