biographie de Walter CLARK (1848-1917)

Birth place: Brooklyn, NY

Addresses: Bronxville, NY; Cos Cob, CT, periodically from 1890

Profession: Landscape painter, sculptor

Studied: MIT for engineering, 1866-69; then toured Europe, studying art and architecture; he also traveled to the Far East; NAD, 1876 with L. Wilmarth (drawing), J.S. Hartley (sculpture); ASL; G. Inness, 1881

Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1879 (bronze bust); NAD, 1879-1917 (Inness gold medal, 1902); AIC, 1889,1896, 1898, 1904, 1913; PAFA, 1892-1904; Boston AC, 1896-1904; Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (silver medal); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (silver medal); Corcoran Gal, 1907-08.

Member: ANA, 1898; NA, 1909; SAA, 1898; NYWCC; Artists Fund Soc.; SC, 1901; Ldscp. Painters; Century Assn.; NAC.

Comments: For most of his career, Clark was a Tonalist, influenced by George Inness whose studio was next door in the Holbein Building, NYC. He the father of Eliot Clark, with whom he later shared a studio in the Van Dyke Bldg., NYC. Together, they painted in Annisquam (MA), Chadds Ford and Downington (PA), Long Island (NY), and other picturesque spots on the East Coast. Later Clark began to turn toward Impressionism. He exhibited at the National Academy for nearly four decades.

Sources: WW15; PHF files; Pisano, The Long Island Landscape, n.p.; American Scene Painting and Sculpture, 156 (w/repro.); 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 429; Falk, Exh. Record Series.