Post 191 -by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
Alson S. Clark (1876-1949) was California's most well known painters. He is remembered for his tonal portraits and figure studies, extensive work on urban landscape scenes like industrial structures railroads, bridges, factories and painting en plein air work in Spanish areas.
He began studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, as a Saturday evening student. He spent his early career in Paris. Clark travelled extensively visiting Normandy, Gavarnie, parts of Italy and Spain, the Netherlands, Dalmatia, and Canada, besides the Panama Canal construction site.
He went to California to recover from a hearing disability incurred during the war After WW-I. ‘He was reluctant to resume his painting career, but found the desert, coast and mountains of the Southern California too fascinating to resist’. He began now working on large plein-air landscapes in a free and brighter mode.
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