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1876 Chicago, Illinois - 1949 Pasadena, California. Known for: Landscape and figure painting, illustration, mural.
A landscape painter strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, Alson Skinner Clark spent much of his career traveling and living in foreign countries and then settled in Southern California... Read full biography
A landscape painter strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, Alson Skinner Clark spent much of his career traveling and living in foreign countries and then settled in Southern California where he became a plein-aire painter, art educator and muralist. From there, he also traveled... Read full biography
A landscape painter strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, Alson Skinner Clark spent much of his career traveling and living in foreign countries and then settled in Southern California where he became a plein-aire painter, art educator and muralist. From there, he also traveled extensively in Mexico and the Southwest. Alson Clark was born in Chicago to a prosperous family comfortably supported by the father's commodities business. He showed early art talent, which his family... Read full biography
A landscape painter strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, Alson Skinner Clark spent much of his career traveling and living in foreign countries and then settled in Southern California where he became a plein-aire painter, art educator and muralist. From there, he also traveled extensively in Mexico and the Southwest. Alson Clark was born in Chicago to a prosperous family comfortably supported by the father's commodities business. He showed early art talent, which his family encouraged by enrolling him in evening classes at the Art Institute. They also took him on a two-year trip around the world where he gained much exposure to European art. Graduating from high school, he again enrolled at the Art Institute but unhappy with... Read full biography
A landscape painter strongly influenced by the French Impressionists, Alson Skinner Clark spent much of his career traveling and living in foreign countries and then settled in Southern California where he became a plein-aire painter, art educator and muralist. From there, he also traveled extensively in Mexico and the Southwest. Alson Clark was born in Chicago to a prosperous family comfortably supported by the father's commodities business. He showed early art talent, which his family encouraged by enrolling him in evening classes at the Art Institute. They also took him on a two-year trip around the world where he gained much exposure to European art. Graduating from high school, he again enrolled at the Art Institute but unhappy with his teacher, he left after six months, and in 1896, went to New York to study with William Merritt... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Ink
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Adobe Structures, Pueblos
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Desert Landscape
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •San Juan Capistrano Mission
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Spanish Missions, California
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Charleston, South Carolina Pre 1940
- •Death Valley, California
- •Europe
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Giverny, France
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •California Watercolor Society
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
Art Teacher
- •James McNeill Whistler
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Academie Carmen, Paris (James Whistler)
- •Academie Delacluse, Paris, Student
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •New York School of Art, Chase School, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •Shinnecock Summer School, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Chicago Union League Club
- •Gardena High School Collection (CA)
- •Morton H. Fleischer Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Charleston Renaissance Artist
- •Mural Specialty
- •Snowscene Specialty
- •Western Subject Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
- •MacBeth Gallery, New York City
- •Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •California Art Club
- •California Watercolor Society-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts