About John Clem Clarke

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John Clem Clark
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    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 d...

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