American Art Collaborative

Landscape and mural painter, printmaker; California. Born in Chicago. Clark studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League and the Chase School of Art in N.Y. with William Merritt Chase. He studied briefly with James McNeill Whistler in Paris. Primarily an impressionist and working in the a plein-air manner, he traveled and painted often in Spain, Italy, Panama, New England, South Carolina, California, and Mexico. His Panama paintings, documented the building of the canal, were exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco in 1915. Moving to Pasadena, Calif. in 1919, he continued to work and exhibit until his death. He received several commissions for murals including the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles.