Mary Anderson Clark (1810-1994)
Nude Mother and Child, circa 1933-1943
plaster
Collection of Smithsonian Art Museum
31.25 x 7.5 x 7.25 inches
Mary Anderson Clark (1910-1994)
maquette: Peace, circa 1935
plaster
Mary Anderson Clark (1910-1994)
Goat, circa 1935-1943
plaster
Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
10 x 12.25 x 6 inches
Mary Anderson Clark (1910-1994)
Peace, 1938
limestone
Collection of City of Peoria, Illinois
8' tall
Mary Anderson Clark (1910-1994)
Harvest, 1939
limestone
Collection of City of Peoria, Illinois
8' tall
Artist Details
Mary
Helene
Anderson
Clark
Horace Clark, born Peoria, Illinois. His father was the Vice President of a local bank. His family was prominent in Peoria. He studied at Duke University, Durham, NC from 1929-1931. He then transferred to the Designer’s Art School in Boston, MA from 1931-1932. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1932-1933.
Married in 1934.
In 1941, they both joined the art school faculty at the University of Arizona. During the war, he worked for 3 years at the Davis-Monthan Air Base. He completed his BFA at the University of Arizona in 1946. He then accepted a teaching job at Syracuse University School of Art, where he taught until 1975..
After suffering a stroke in 1972, he learned to paint with his left hand.
3 children
January 10, 1910
Chicago, Illinois
May 22, 1994
Springville, New York
1941-1946: Arizona
1946-?: 5570 S. Salina, Syracuse, New York
151 Cattaraugus St., Springville, New York
Chicago, Illinois
1941-1946: Arizona
1946- : Syracuse, New York
in Syracuse, in rear of house, shared with husband
Sculptor
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
British Academy, Rome, Italy
student of John Storrs (her uncle)
Array
1938: New Horizons in American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
July 28-October 9, 1938: Art for the Public by Chicago Artists of the Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Peace, half-size plaster model for stone; Harvest, half-size plaster model for stone; Tom Sawyer, full-size plaster model for cast stone; Alice in Wonderland, full-size plaster model for cast stone
July 1 - Aug. 8, 1935: Paintings and Designs: Works Made For The W.P.A. of Illinois By Artists Of Chicago And Vicinity, Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois; maquette for Peace
1983: After the Great Crash: New Deal Art in Illinois, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Federal Art Project
1941-1946: member of faculty at Art School, University of Arizona.
Love to play tennis with her husband, even after his stroke in 1972. Mary liked to read aloud to Horace in the evenings. He sometimes used her readings as inspiration for his paintings