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Image version from "Selected Works from The Dayton Art Institute Permanent Collection" publishe…
Eliot Candee Clark
Image version from "Selected Works from The Dayton Art Institute Permanent Collection" publishe…
Image version from "Selected Works from The Dayton Art Institute Permanent Collection" published by The Dayton Art Institute, 1999, Dayton, Ohio.

Eliot Candee Clark

American, 1883 - 1980
(not assigned)Virgina
(not assigned)New York, New York
(not assigned)Kent, Connecticut
BiographySon of landscape painter Walter Clark, Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American impressionist style.

He was educated in the New York public schools and at age 13 exhibited with the National Academy and the New York Water Color Club. By 1912, he had won national painting awards and by 1916 was writing books on American artists as well as the history of the National Academy.

He was greatly influenced by family friend John Twachtmann, and between 1904 and 1906, studied in France in Paris and Giverny. In London he saw the impressionist work of James Whistler, which influenced the direction of his own distinctly impressionist style. In 1912, he painted at the Grand Canyon, in New Mexico, the Painted Desert and northern Arizona, and in 1913, he was in California, painting in Yosemite.

In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted landscapes in the Southwest including the Arizona Painted Desert in 1926 and 1935. From 1922 to 1932, he lived in Kent, Connecticut, and then moved to Albemarle County Virginia, where he was active as a painter. Because of his interest in eastern philosophy he traveled in the late 1930s to India for two years where he painted the Himalaya and also to Tibet. He also painted in the Deep South in Charleston and Savannah where he set up his easel on the waterfronts and among oak groves.

Clark was also a teacher including at the National Art Club from 1943, the Art Students League, and New York City College.

Credit:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, "The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West"
Robert M. Hicklin Jr., Inc.
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" (Source: Askart.com, Accessed 2/9/2004)


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