Virginia Clark

Artist Details

• First Name Virginia
• Middle Name Hynson
• Maiden Name Keep
• Surname Clark
• Spouse’s Full Name Marshall John Clark, married 1906 in Indianapolis, in her parents’ home in Morton Place, then moved to Evanston, Illinois, where his parents lived
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date February 17, 1878
• Birth Place New Orleans, Louisiana
• Death Date September 14, 1962
• Death Place Winter Park, Florida
• Residence(s) Morton Place, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  New York, New York
  
  1906: Evanston, Illinois (his parents lived in Evanston)
  
  1914: 3 E Ontario, Chicago, Illinois
  
  early 1920s: "Windy Meadow" in Oyster Bay, New York
  
  New York, New York
  
  Mackall, Maryland
  
  1942-1962: Winter Park, Florida
• Active In New York, New York
  
  1906: Evanston, Illinois (his parents lived in Evanston)
  
  1914: 3 E Ontario, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Oyster Bay, New York
  
  New York, New York
  
  Mackall, Maryland
  
  Winter Park, Florida
• Studio Location(s) 1908: opened studio in Chicago, shared at some point with Cecil Clark, first cousin t her husband
• Categories Illustrator, Painter-Acrylic, Painter-Oil, Pastelist, Watercolorist
• Training student of Mary Yandes Robinson in Indianapolis, Indiana
  Indiana School of Art under William Forsyth
  Art Students’ League, New York, New York under Kenyon Cox, Jr.; J. Carroll Beckwith; Walter Appleton Clark
  Chase School of Art, student of William Merritt Chase
  John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
• Relevant Travel 1911: with Ethel Coe and Lucy Taggart to Europe to draw and paint until tutelage of Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
  
  New York
  
  New England
  
  Maryland
  
  Florida
  
  Haiti
  
  Bahamas
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1904: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri
  
  March 25-April 27, 1913: Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait Sketch; The Blue Bonnet  - pastels
  
  May 7-June 7, 1914: Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait (lent by Mr. Philip James); Portrait (lent by Mrs. Cuthbert Adams) both pastels
  
  May 13-June 13, 1915: Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Mother and Child, pastel
  
  February 4-March 14, 1926: Thirtieth Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Girl Reading, oil
  
  Corcoran Gallery
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  President Benjamin Harrison Home, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art
  
  Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio
• Awards 1926: Municipal Art League Prize, Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Girl Reading, oil
• Other Occupation(s) 1902-1906: taught art to children at Herron School of Art/John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
  
  Created a catalog about Charles Prendergast, 1923
  
  during World War II, sketched and taught art to patients in military hospitals
• Website(s) page on Indian Illustrators and Hoosier Cartoonists website
  
  two posts by Tiffany Benedict Browne's historicindianapolis.com website:  February 15, 2011 and Feb. 17, 2018
• Biography descended from William Brewster, Pilgrim with Plymouth Colony
  
  parents: Charles B. and Katherine “Katie” Hynson Keep; stepfather from an early age was Aretas Wallace Hatch, a leading attorney of Indianapolis, and esp. in litigation connection with the federal court; born LaSalle, IL July 10, 1858 to Volney G. Hatch (merchant and banker) and Mary Hitchcock Hatch
  
  Friends included Arthur B. Davies, Charles Prendergast, Maurice Prendergast, Walt Kuhn , Edna Woolman Chase, Lucy Taggert, Franklin Remington
  
  buried Evergreen Cemetery, Marion, Massachusetts.