Claude Clark

Mask with Metal

1944

watercolor on paper

Label on reverse

Condition: the work has been supported on the back in two places with paper backing; repairs have been made, as pictured, to the margins where surface area was stained and/or damaged. Otherwise good condition. The work presents well.

Archivally framed

Provenance: Private collection, Oakland, CA

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Claude Clark (1915-2001) was a painter, printmaker and art educator. His subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, dance scenes, street urchins, landscapes and religious and political satire. He studied at the Barnes Foundation in the late 30s early 40s and then worked closely with Dox Thrash and Raymond Seth, who pioneered new printmaking techniques in the graphics art shop of the Philadelphia WPA. In 1949 he moved to California, where he taught art for many years in the University of California system.

Public collections include the Smithsonian American Art Museum; National African American Museum and Cultural Center, Dayton, Ohio; M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Oakland Museum of California.