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Claude F Clark Sr

Claude F. Clark, Sr. (1915 - 2001) was active/lived in Alabama, Pennsylvania, California.  Claude Clark Sr is known for Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking.

Claude Clark (1915-2001)

He was born on a tenant farm in Georgia in 1915.  He received a four year scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and studied at the Barnes Foundation.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sacramento State University and a Masters of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Clark worked as a print maker in stone lithography, metal plate intaglio, aquatint, etching and carbograph on the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration in Philadelphia from 1939-1942.  During the Depression, he shared a studio with Raymond Steth and worked closely with carborundum print process inventor, Dox Thrash.

He taught at Sacramento State College in 1956, demonstrating how carbographs were made, as well as creating several prints.  From 1942 until the early 1960s, Clark did linoleum relief prints for each year, including "New House."

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Artist auction records

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Facts about Claude F Clark Sr

   Publications  Book References:  13
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Claude F. Clark, Sr.
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques The Top 100 Collectors in America March 2003 Cochran, B.L. and R.D Yes
13 Book References for Claude F. Clark, Sr.
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1997 Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface) St. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 625 No
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
67 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
221 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
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