Joan Kempsmith
Birth Date: 1928

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Joan Kempsmith was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1928. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art and studied in France and Italy. As a result of her travels, her work is greatly inspired by Europe. Kempsmith exhibited and won a number of first prizes in Cleveland's annual art shows starting in 1949. Kempsmith was the second wife of Cleveland's acclaimed John Teyral. The Palazzo Dario, also known as Ca'Dario, is a palace located on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, near the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. It was built in the floral Venetian Gothic Style and renovated in the Renaissance. Palazzio Dario has an unfortunate history - it has claimed a host of unlucky victims, including the rich and famous. It’s said that the people who owned the building or stayed there for more than 20 days died, committed murder, or became bankrupt. Even local fisherman don’t dare cast their ropes by the cursed palazzo, which has been dubbed “the house that kills.”