Claude Clark

Portrait of Effie, Mary Lockhart Clark (the artist’s wife)

Circa 1940s-50s

Oil on board

24 x 18 inches

Signed lower right and inscribed on reverse.

Very good condition

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.