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John Clem Clarke

John Clem Clarke (1937 - 2021) was active/lived in New York, Oregon.  John Clarke is known for Post real figure, genre and social commentary paintings and sculpture.

The following is from Traditional Fine Arts Online (TFAOL), John Hazeltine

Allentown Art Museum
John Clem Clarke: Comforts, Near Disasters, and Pentimenti

The Allentown Art Museum's Fall Major Exhibition, John Clem Clarke: Comforts, Near Disasters, and Pentimenti, opened October 11, 1998, and runs through January 3, 1999.

John Clem Clarke (b. 1937) continues to challenge our preconceptions about how pictures are made and can be made. The subjects of his eminently easy-to-read paintings of the last ten years are mostly food, modes of transportation, homelife, sports, and industry. They couldn't be more all-American or seem more straightforward. Yet they raise many questions, involving viewers in the artist's ongoing dialogue with visual art. Clark's most recent subject matter is the source of the title for this exhibition.

Clarke's "Comforts" are the sorts of images found in pulp publications -- illustrations that use a shorthand of graphic symbols, includ   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3469 characters.]  Artist bio

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