Eliot Candee Clark (American 1883-1980), "Mountains", Signed with artist's monogram l.r., Pastel on paper Provenance: The Marbella Gallery Inc., New York
Eliot Candee Clark (1883 - 1980) "Grand Canyon" Oil on Board. Eliot Candee Clark, born in 1883 in New York. He was the son of tonalist painter Walter Clark (1848-1917). In 1912, he painted at the Grand Canyon, in New Mexico, the Painted Desert and northern Arizona, and in 1913, he was in California, painting in Yosemite. In the 1920s and 1930s, he again painted landscapes in the Southwest including the Arizona Painted Desert in 1926 and 1935. Clark exhibited at the New York Watercolor Club; National Academy of Design; American Art Association of Paris Annual Exhibition; Doll & Richards, Boston; Louis Katz Gallery, NY; Guild of Allied Artists, NY; Milwaukee Art Institute; Henry Reinhardt & Son, NY; Mohr Art Galleries; Butler Art Institute; Telfair Academy, Georgia; Rochester Art Association, Rochester, MN; J.W. Young Galleries; Atlanta Woman's Club; Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas; Carnegie Public Library; Providence Art Club; Witt Memorial Museum, Texas; Nan Sheets Gallery, Oklahoma; Iran Institute and others. He taught at the Art Students' League; Savannah Art club; University of Virginia; Grand Central Art Gallery School and others Artist: Eliot C. Clark Title: "Grand Canyon" Medium: Oil on Board Signature Type: Estate Stamp Signature Location: Lower Left, Reverse Site Measurement: 16" x 20" Keywords: Southwestern, Western Artwork, Art; Ref: BD3104
Property of a Private Collector, Beaufort, SC Description: Eliot Clark (NY/VA, 1883-1980), Moonlit Shore, Oil on Board, signed lower right, depicting a shore and dock at dusk, with linen surround in a giltwood frame. Frame size: 13 1/8 in. x 16 in. Measurements: Height: by sight, 8 1/4 in. x Width: 11 3/8 in. Condition: Good condition, small loss to paint middle right, light wear to frame. Notice to bidders: The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. PHOTOS MAY ALSO ACT AS A CONDITION REPORT. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding. Complete condition reports are available by request, no later than 24 hours prior to the live auction. All lots are offered and sold 'AS ISÕ, and Everard Auctions will not provide refunds based on condition. Timepiece movements, lighting and electrics have not been tested, and art has not been examined out of the frame unless otherwise stated. We do not guarantee the condition of frames. By placing a bid, either in person, by phone, absentee or via the Internet, you signify that you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale. Everard Auctions does not provide any shipping or packing services. We recommend that all potential buyers obtain pack/ship estimates prior to bidding. Please contact us for a list of recommended shippers.
Eliot Candee Clark (American 1883-1980) "Nocturne, East River" Pastel on paper Signed lower left Eliot Clark 11" x 13" Condition: overall good condition
Eliot Candee Clark (American 1883-1980) "East River Dredging Rig" Pastel on paper Signed lower left Eliot Clark 11" x 16" Condition: overall good condition
ELIOT CANDEE CLARK (American 1883-1980) A PAINTING, "Winter Landscape, Kent, Connecticut," oil on board, signed L/L, "Eliot Clark," marked on reverse, "No. I Kent Conn / Eliot Clark;" 12" x 14", framed 15 1/2" x 17 1/4".
Eliot Candee Clark (AMERICAN / NEW YORK / VIRGINIA / EUROPE, 1883 - 1980) oil painting on canvas depicting a still life scene. Signed to lower right. Further signed to verso of canvas. Verso has The MiarbellaGallery Inc., New York label. Unframed. Canvas on stretcher measures approx. 14" height x 20" width. Appears in overall good condition.JD/B13/SH:16B
Property of a Private Collector, Beaufort, SC Description: Eliot Clark (NY/VA, 1883-1980), Shenandoah View, Pastel, c. 1930s, initial signed lower right (?), Gallery C labels on verso, matted and in a giltwood frame. Frame size: 17 1/2 in. x 21 1/2 in. Measurements: Height: by sight, 6 1/4 in. x Width: 10 1/2 in. Condition: Good condition, not viewed out of frame, light wear to frame. Notice to bidders: The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. PHOTOS MAY ALSO ACT AS A CONDITION REPORT. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding. Complete condition reports are available by request, no later than 24 hours prior to the live auction. All lots are offered and sold 'AS IS’, and Everard Auctions will not provide refunds based on condition. Timepiece movements, lighting and electrics have not been tested, and art has not been examined out of the frame unless otherwise stated. We do not guarantee the condition of frames. By placing a bid, either in person, by phone, absentee or via the Internet, you signify that you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale. Everard Auctions does not provide any shipping or packing services. We recommend that all potential buyers obtain pack/ship estimates prior to bidding. Please contact us for a list of recommended shippers.
Property of a Private Collector, Beaufort, SC Description: Eliot Clark (NY/VA, 1883-1980), Moonlit Shore, Oil on Board, signed lower right, depicting a shore and dock at dusk, with linen surround in a giltwood frame. Frame size: 13 1/8 in. x 16 in. Measurements: Height: by sight, 8 1/4 in. x Width: 11 3/8 in. Condition: Good condition, small loss to paint middle right, light wear to frame. Notice to bidders: The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. PHOTOS MAY ALSO ACT AS A CONDITION REPORT. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding. Complete condition reports are available by request, no later than 24 hours prior to the live auction. All lots are offered and sold 'AS IS’, and Everard Auctions will not provide refunds based on condition. Timepiece movements, lighting and electrics have not been tested, and art has not been examined out of the frame unless otherwise stated. We do not guarantee the condition of frames. By placing a bid, either in person, by phone, absentee or via the Internet, you signify that you agree to be bound by the conditions of sale. Everard Auctions does not provide any shipping or packing services. We recommend that all potential buyers obtain pack/ship estimates prior to bidding. Please contact us for a list of recommended shippers.
ELIOT CANDEE CLARK (AMERICAN, 1883-1980) LANDSCAPE PAINTING, oil on board, a bucolic scene executed in an impressionistic style, depicting a barn scene and outbuildings surrounded by pasture, signed lower right. Housed in a modern gilt molded frame. Mid 20th century. 15 1/2" x 23 1/2" sight, 21 1/4" x 29" OA. Catalogue Note: Born in New York City, Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980) traveled extensively in his youth, but eventually settled in Albemarle County, Virginia, where he spent a good deal of the latter period of his life. His father, Walter Clark (1848-1917), was an accomplished landscape painter in his own right, who had studied with George Inness, and the young Eliot would often accompany his father on painting expeditions along the East Coast with fellow artists such as John Henry Twatchman and Edward Potthast. Clark pursued formal study at the Art Students League in New York City and in 1904 left for Europe to continue his training. In Europe, he traveled widely and was exposed to a number of locations, styles, and influences, most notably Monet at Giverny. After a brief period on the East Coast following his return to the United States, Clark ventured to the American West, where he painted scenes in Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Wyoming. In the 1920s he lived and worked in Kent, Connecticut, and eventually made his way to Albemarle County, Virginia in 1932. Between trips to New York City and the Far East, Clark continued in his career as an artist and teacher, making Virginia his permanent home after 1959. A member of the National Academy for over forty years, Clark served as President of the institution for two years. He also taught courses at the University of Virginia and even served on the Board Of Visitors at the university. Widely admired, Clark exhibited a great deal during his life, receiving numerous awards and accolades as well. His work is today included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy of Design, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Dayton Museum of Art, among others.
Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980) Watercolor & Gouache, signed lower right and verso reads Eastern Shore, Maryland, piece measures 5.5 x 9 and 14 x 17 inches with hand painted diaphragm by the artist and giltwood frame. Son of landscape painter Walter Clark and Jennifer Woodruff Clark, a student of psychic phenomena, Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style. Moving to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, he was one of the few Impressionist* artists of the Southern states. Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester, Massachusetts with John Twachtman, a family friend. Showing his obvious interest in Impressionism, he wrote a book about its exponents including Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, Julian Weir, and Robert Vonnoh.Clark was a teacher including at the National Arts Club* from 1943, the Art Students League*, and New York City College.Early in his youth, Clark traveled with his father and other prominent artists to paint in the summer art colonies at Annisquam, Gloucester, Chadd's Ford and Ogunquit where he met artists of stature such as Edward Potthast and John Henry Twachtman. Clark's only formal instruction was a short two months at the Art Students League in New York.His landscapes evoked a "spiritualized rendition of nature" that was to stay with him for the rest of his life. Clark (perhaps related to his mother's interest in physic phenomena) developed an early interest in oriental philosophy that ended up having a major effect on his artistic development, the sense of spirituality in his landscape paintings slowly grew in importance.Clark was educated in the New York public schools, and at age 13 exhibited with the National Academy and the New York WaterColor Club*. By 1912, he had won national painting awards, and by 1916 was writing books on American artists as well as the history of the National Academy of Design.*. In his early years Clark was privately tutored, and then later graduated from Washington Irving High School at the early age of fifteen. Although he later was quoted as saying "he had no formal training from his father", his early work was notable influenced by Walter Clark's tonalist style.Between 1904 and 1906, Clark studied in France in Paris and Giverny, and in London he saw the impressionist work of James Whistler. He wrote to his father about the Whistler Exhibit stating that some of Whistler's work impressed him, "not so much in the handling, but in the use of color, and subtle arrangement of line and balance of masses." He engaged in a "walking tour" of Europe with a fellow artist whom he met in earlier in Paris. They visited many of the major galleries in Holland and then traveled through the Alps, finally reaching Venice on August 10, 1906. In Venice, he produced some Whistlerian style pastels similar to the ones he had seen in the Whistler Exhibition.He returned to New York in 1906, and a year later took a studio in the Van Dyke Studio Building on Eighth Avenue. There working in the building were a diversified group of painters such as the Tonalist* artists Bruce Crane and Cullan Yates; the Impressionists were represented by Edward Dufner and Karl Anderson.In 1912, he painted at the Grand Canyon, in New Mexico, the Painted Desert and northern Arizona, and in 1913, he was in California, painting in Yosemite.In the 1920s and 1930s, he again painted landscapes in the Southwest including the Arizona Painted Desert in 1926 and 1935. From 1922 to 1932, he lived primarily in Kent, Connecticut along the Housatonic river with such notable impressionist painters as Robert Nesbet and G. Glenn Newell. In 1932, he moved to Albemarle County Virginia to escape from a bitter divorce with his first wife. This led to a dark time for Clark who opted to travel abroad to find himself again rather than take the security of a teaching position, which was offered to him by the University of Georgia.Because of his interest in eastern philosophy he traveled in the late 1930s to India for two years where he painted the Himalayas and also to Tibet. He also painted in the Deep South in Charleston and Savannah where he set up his easel on the waterfronts and among oak groves. In 1944 rejuvenated by a second marriage and election to the National Academy of Design, Clark returned to the Connecticut countryside to paint landscapes. In the late 1940s Clark began to summer in Virginia where he ultimately returned for good in 1959, settling with his new wife in the "lovely hills" near Albemarle, Virginia.He continued to paint almost to the end of his life, enjoying the solitude and peace of the surrounding environment where he could relate to canvas the subtleties of nature as only he could. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1917 and full academician in 1944. Clark was also president of the National Academy from 1956-1959. He was a member/president of the American Watercolor Society*; president/member of Allied Artists of America*, 1948-52; ex officio trustee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956; National Academy of Design Awards Jury; Society of Painters of New York; Connecticut Association of Fine Art; Salmagundi Club*; International Society of Arts and Letters; Macdonald Club; Art Fund Society; New York Watercolor Club and others.Clark exhibited at the New York Watercolor Club; National Academy of Design; American Art Association of Paris Annual Exhibition; Doll & Richards, Boston; Louis Katz Gallery, NY; Guild of Allied Artists, NY; Milwaukee Art Institute; Henry Reinhardt & Son, NY; Mohr Art Galleries; Butler Art Institute; Telfair Academy, Georgia; Rochester Art Association, Rochester, MN; J.W. Young Galleries; Atlanta Woman's Club; Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas; Carnegie Public Library; Providence Art Club; Witt Memorial Museum, Texas; Nan Sheets Gallery, Oklahoma; Iran Institute and others.He taught at the Art Students'League; Savannah Art club; University of Virginia; Grand Central Art Gallery School and others.
Eliot Clark (Am. 1883-1980) Autumn in the Foothills Oil on linen, framed Signed with monogram l.r., indistinct inscription and Mo's Gallery and Framing label verso 8 1/4" x 10 1/4" actual, 10 5/8" x 12 9/16" framed
Eliot Candee Clark (American 1883-1980), 'Vermont' 1926, oil on board, depicting a landscape with trees and rolling hills, possible monogram to lower right, inscribed and signed en verso, estate stamp en verso, in a gilt frame. Note: Accompanied with artist's pamphlet from Hammer Galleries, 1981. Approximate dimensions: board h. 11.75", w. 16"; frame h. 21", w. 25", d. 2.5"
Oil on board. Signed bottom left. Housed in a period hand-carved and gilded frame. 12 x 16" ; 19 1/2 x 23 1/2" (framed). Provenance: Rhode Island Family by descent.
'Cottage in Landscape'. Watercolor. Signed lower right corner. Verso: The Marbella Gallery, NYC label. Property of a Stamford, CT estate. Dimensions: Sight size: 9" h x 12" w. Framed: 12" h x 15" w.
Eliot Candee Clark (1883 - 1980) Oil on canvas laid on board, signed lower left, measures (7.5 x 10) w/ frame (12 x 14) Son of landscape painter Walter Clark and Jennifer Woodruff Clark, a student of psychic phenomena, Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style. Moving to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, he was one of the few Impressionist* artists of the Southern states. Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester, Massachusetts with John Twachtman, a family friend. Showing his obvious interest in Impressionism, he wrote a book about its exponents including Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, Julian Weir, and Robert Vonnoh.
LANDSCAPE BY ELIOT CLARK (1883-1980). American, 20th Century. Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Houses and hill. Glued down (loose on one corner), small area paint loss. 5"h. 7"w.
Fifteen works, all pencil on paper, some with touches of gouache, others with pastels. Six are initialed and one is signed and dated for 1907, the other works are unsigned. All European scenes. All loose and unframed. Dimensions: the sheet sizes range from 7" x 5" to 6" x 9".
Fifteen works, all pencil on paper, some with touches of gouache, others with pastels. Six are initialed and one is signed and dated for 1907, the other works are unsigned. All European scenes. All loose and unframed. Dimensions: the sheet sizes range from 7" x 5" to 6" x 9".
Eliot Candee Clark (American, 1883-1980), "West Virginia", 1980, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed "For M.C." lower right, "Eliot Clark (289) Estate" stamp and inscription and "The Marbella Gallery, Inc., New York" label with title on stretcher, 25 3/4 in. x 26 1/8 in., framed, overall 29 1/2 in. x 29 1/2 in. x 2 in. Provenance: Neal Auction Company, Nov. 20, 2010, lot 394; Estate of W. Wayne Lake, New Orleans, LA.
(New York/Virginia/Europe, 1883 - 1980) Oil on board titled on verso, "September Day." Nicely rendered example signed lower right with NA next to Clark's name. Housed in a silver gilt frame. H19 3/8" W15 1/2" (without frame) Sold from the collection of a South Carolina gentleman.
Eliot Candee Clark (1883 - 1980) pastel on paper, signed lower left, measures 5 x 8 and 7 x 9 inches w/ frame. Son of landscape painter Walter Clark and Jennifer Woodruff Clark, a student of psychic phenomena, Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style. Moving to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, he was one of the few Impressionist* artists of the Southern states. Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester, Massachusetts with John Twachtman, a family friend. Showing his obvious interest in Impressionism, he wrote a book about its exponents including Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, Julian Weir, and Robert Vonnoh.
Eliot Candee Clark (1882-1980). Sleet Storm Larchmont, N.Y., 1940. Watercolor and gouache painting on paper. Signed lower left, with estate stamp verso. 15 1/2" x 23".
Eliot Candee Clark (1882-1980). Himalayan Mountain Landscapes. 2 watercolor and gouache paintings on paper of scenes in the Himalayas. Signed lower margin and with estate stamp verso. C. 1930s. 15 1/2" x 23".
Eliot Candee Clark 1883 - 1980 House in Provincetown signed Eliot Clark (lower right); inscribed Provincetown (along the upper stretcher) oil on canvas 25 1/4 by 35 in. 64.1 by 88.9 cm.
Eliot Candee Clark 1883 - 1980 Pennsylvania Hills signed Eliot Clark (lower right); signed E. Clark and titled (on the reverse) oil on board 9 by 12 in. 22.9 by 30.5 cm.
Antique framed landscape oil on canvas signed Eliot Clark. (American, 1883-1980). Signed lower right corner. framed:12 inches x 14 inches unframed: 10 inches x 12 inches
ARTIST: Eliot Candee Clark (New York, Virginia, 1883 - 1980) TITLE: Orientalist Cityscape MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board. CONDITION: Few minor paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light. ART SIZE: 14 x 18 inches / 35 x 45 cm FRAME SIZE: 19 x 23 inches / 48 x 58 cm SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 124793 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Eliot Candee Clark, born in 1883 in New York, was a precocious artist - he exhibited two pieces at the New York Water Color Club when he was only nine years old; at age 13 exhibited with the National Academy and the New York Water Color Club; by 1912 he had won national painting awards; and by 1916 was writing books on American artists as well as the history of the National Academy. He was the son of tonalist painter Walter Clark (1848-1917). He was widely traveled in Europe and beyond, and associated with major artists of his day. He moved to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, and was one of the few Impressionist artists of the Southern states. Clark was a teacher including at the National Art Club from 1943, the Art Students League, and New York City College. His landscapes evoked a "spiritualized rendition of nature". Clark developed an early interest in oriental philosophy that ended up having a major effect on his artistic development. These interests lead him to travel even to India and Tibet.He continued to paint almost to the end of his life, enjoying the solitude and peace of the surrounding environment where he could relate to canvas the subtleties of nature as only he could. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1917 and full academician in 1944. Clark was also president of the National Academy from 1956-1959. He was also a member/president of the American Watercolor Society; president/member of Allied Artists of America, 1948-52; ex officio trustee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956; National Academy of Design Awards Jury; Society of Painters of New York; Connecticut Association of Fine Art; Salmagundi Club; International Society of Arts and Letters; Macdonald Club; Art Fund Society; New York Watercolor Club and others.Clark exhibited at the New York Watercolor Club; National Academy of Design; American Art Association of Paris Annual Exhibition; Doll & Richards, Boston; Louis Katz Gallery, NY; Guild of Allied Artists, NY; Milwaukee Art Institute; Henry Reinhardt & Son, NY; Mohr Art Galleries; Butler Art Institute; Telfair Academy, Georgia; Rochester Art Association, Rochester, MN; J.W. Young Galleries; Atlanta Woman's Club; Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas; Carnegie Public Library; Providence Art Club; Witt Memorial Museum, Texas; Nan Sheets Gallery, Oklahoma; Iran Institute and others.He taught at the Art Students'League; Savannah Art club; University of Virginia; Grand Central Art Gallery School and others.Eliot Candee Clark passed away in 1980.
(American, 1883-1980) Pulp Mill, signed lower right "Eliot Clark", oil on canvas, .30 x 40 in.; carved gilt wood frame, 36-1/2 x 47 in. Provenance: Campanile Galleries, Chicago Illinois (label vers0); Try-me Collection, Richmond, Virginia
Eliot Candee Clark (American/Virginia, 1883-1980), "Springtime Afternoon", oil on canvas, signed lower right, inscribed en verso, "R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, IL" label with artist and title on backing board, 14 in. x 20 in., framed with title plaque, overall 19 1/2 in. x 25 5/8 in. x 3 1/4 in.
Eliot Candee Clark (New York/Virginia, 1883-1980), small Impressionist pastel on paper drawing depicting city buildings and a bridge at dusk, outlined in blue. Signed Eliot Clark lower right. Matted and framed under glass with silver-gilt frame and fillet. Sight: 8 1/2" H x 4 3/4" W. Framed: 19 1/2" H x 16" W.
Eliot Clark (1883-1980) American, Oil on Board, signed, estate stamp on the back. Son of landscape painter Walter Clark and Jennifer Woodruff Clark, a student of psychic phenomena,Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style. Moving to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, he was one of the few Impressionist* artists of the Southern states.Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester, Massachusetts with John Twachtman, a family friend. Showing his obvious interest in Impressionism, he wrote a book about its exponents including Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, Julian Weir, and Robert Vonnoh. Overall size: 16 1/2 x 21 in. Sight size: 11 x 15 1/2 in.
Oil on canvas seascape. Faintly signed lower right. Signed, inscribed, dated verso. With the estate stamp and estate number 358. A good period lemon gold frame. Dimensions: (Frame) H 17" x W 19.5", (Canvas) H 12" x W 14" Condition: Painting off the stretcher. Somewhat bows in frame. Some small losses and light cracks.
Eliot Clark Oil on Canvas Landscape Painting Antique framed landscape oil on canvas signed Eliot Clark. (American, 1883-1980). Signed lower right corner. framed:12 inches x 14 inches unframed: 10 inches x 12 inches
Property from the Collection of John and Virginia Duncan, Savannah, GA Description: Eliot Clark (NY/VA, 1883-1980), Savannah Morning, Oil on Board, signed lower right and titled verso, depicting a river landscape, in a giltwood frame. Frame size: 12 3/4 in. x 18 1/2 in. Measurements: Height: by sight 9 3/4 in. x Width: 15 3/8 in. Condition: Good condition, some surface dirt, varnish slightly yellowed, light wear to edges where board touches frame.
Eliot Candee Clark (American, 1883-1980) Landscape, circa 1925 Oil on board 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm) Signed lower right: Eliot: Clark HID01801242017
Eliot Candee Clark (American, 1883-1980) Wisteria in Tuscany Oil on board 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm) Signed lower left twice: Eliot Clark HID01801242017
ARTIST: Eliot Candee Clark (New York, Virginia, 1883 - 1980) NAME: Landscape MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Normal wear along edges. Minor scattered inpaintings in the sky area. SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 18 inches / 35 x 45 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available) SIGNATURE: lower right CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 121162 US Shipping $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Eliot Candee Clark, born in 1883 in New York, was a precocious artist - he exhibited two pieces at the New York Water Color Club when he was only nine years old; at age 13 exhibited with the National Academy and the New York Water Color Club; by 1912 he had won national painting awards; and by 1916 was writing books on American artists as well as the history of the National Academy.He was the son of tonalist painter Walter Clark (1848-1917). He was widely traveled in Europe and beyond, and associated with major artists of his day. He moved to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, and was one of the few Impressionist artists of the Southern states. Clark was a teacher including at the National Art Club from 1943, the Art Students League, and New York City College.His landscapes evoked a "spiritualized rendition of nature". Clark developed an early interest in oriental philosophy that ended up having a major effect on his artistic development. These interests lead him to travel even to India and Tibet.He continued to paint almost to the end of his life, enjoying the solitude and peace of the surrounding environment where he could relate to canvas the subtleties of nature as only he could. He was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1917 and full academician in 1944.Clark was also president of the National Academy from 1956-1959. He was also a member/president of the American Watercolor Society; president/member of Allied Artists of America, 1948-52; ex officio trustee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1956; National Academy of Design Awards Jury; Society of Painters of New York; Connecticut Association of Fine Art; Salmagundi Club; International Society of Arts and Letters; Macdonald Club; Art Fund Society; New York Watercolor Club and others.Clark exhibited at the New York Watercolor Club; National Academy of Design; American Art Association of Paris Annual Exhibition; Doll & Richards, Boston; Louis Katz Gallery, NY; Guild of Allied Artists, NY; Milwaukee Art Institute; Henry Reinhardt & Son, NY; Mohr Art Galleries; Butler Art Institute; Telfair Academy, Georgia; Rochester Art Association, Rochester, MN; J.W. Young Galleries; Atlanta Woman's Club; Fort Worth Museum of Art, Texas; Carnegie Public Library; Providence Art Club; Witt Memorial Museum, Texas; Nan Sheets Gallery, Oklahoma; Iran Institute and others.He taught at the Art Students'League; Savannah Art club; University of Virginia; Grand Central Art Gallery School and others.Eliot Candee Clark passed away in 1980.
Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980) Houses by the Bay, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island or Blue Waters signed 'Eliot Clark' (lower left) and titled (on the reverse), signed again and stamped with the artist's address (on the reverse) oil on board 14 x 16 in framed 16 x 18 in. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
