ALSON SKINNER CLARK
Italian Market Scene
Colored Lithograph
Artist cypher lower left, pencil signed lower right
Measures approx. 18" x 15" framed, litho is 9 1/2" x 8"
Good Overall condition. Some light/pale sun toning even over sheet. Frame shows some wear, missing backing paper.
Born in Chicago, Illinois on March 25, 1876, Alson Clark, at age 11
enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, continued in New York City at
the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase and Frank
Duveneck.
Late in 1898 he went to Paris for further study at Académie Carmen
under James Whistler. Returning to the U.S. in 1901, he
established a studio in Watertown, New York, and then returned to
Chicago where in 1903 sales in a successful exhibition allowed for
travel in Canada and Europe.
After serving as an aerial photographer in WWI, he settled in southern
California where in 1922 he and Guy Rose formed the teaching faculty of
Pasadena's Stickney Art School. During this period he also had a
studio in Palm Springs. He taught landscape classes at Occidental
College in Eagle Rock in the late 1930s.
Clark died of a heart attack in Pasadena on March 22, 1949. One
of southern California's most renowned painters, his early portraits
and figure studies evince the somber tonalities of Whistler. After
painting in Giverny with Guy Rose and other impressionists, by 1910 his
palette had begun to brighten considerably.
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