William Sommer

William Sommer (1867–1949) was an American Modernist painter.

William Sommer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1867. He was largely self-taught, but time-honored instruction early upon from artiste and classified ad lithographer Julius Melchers. He apprenticed bearing in mind the Detroit Calvert Lithograph Company for seven years but in 1890 he traveled to Europe where he trained bearing in mind Professors Johann Herterich, Ludwig Schmid, and Adolph Menzel. In 1907 he trendy a position next the Otis Lithograph Company of Cleveland, Ohio and in 1911 he co-founded the Kokoon Arts Club to promote radical art in Cleveland. In 1914 he relocated to Brandywine, Ohio. He worked on several large-scale murals for the Federal Art Project, including Rural Homestead in the Geneva, Ohio make known office.

Artist William Sommer spent most of his enthusiasm in Summit County close Brandywine Falls. Sommer was an established leader of the "Cleveland School," a help of Cleveland-based artists who were supple from the youth through the mid-1940s. These artists formed the core of an art community whose size and bother paralleled the increase and enthusiasm of Cleveland during that period. Sommer painted from the turn of the 20th century into the 1940s, absorbing the ideas of the Cubists and supplementary adventurous artists of that era and integrating these concepts and techniques into his own work. His subjects were adequately rooted in the American midwest, however; favorite subjects included young kids and farm scenes.

He continued to paint until his death in 1949.
Hart Crane dedicated his 1927 poem Sunday Morning Apples to Sommer.