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Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke (1929 - 2014) was active/lived in South Africa, Denmark.  Peter Clarke is known for Modernist, African themed watercolor and gouache still life, landsape, dogs drawing.

Peter Clarke, an artist of humble origins began life in with very few opportunities in apartheid South Africa. His intellectual gifts, talent and determination to follow his deep interest in visual art led him to overcome many obstacles, which would finally win him international recognition. This same determination was made vocal at the opening of a major retrospective at the South African National Gallery in 2011 when he explained his principled fight in order to overcome racial exclusion.

In the end he was victorious, and today the work of Peter Clarke is highly sought after and the subject of a seminal publication, Listening to distant thunder, the art of Peter Clarke, by art historians Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin.In his mid-twenties, Peter Clarke abandoned the security of his job in the Simon’s Town naval yard to follow his calling as an artist.

He had an early successful exhibition in District Six, which encouraged him to focus his   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2286 characters.]  Artist bio

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