Eliot Candee 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 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 15. Although he later was quoted as saying he had no formal training from his father, his early work was notably influenced by Walter Clark's tonalist style. Between 1904–06, 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 Paris earlier. They visited many of the major galleries in Holland and then traveled through the Alps, finally reaching Venice on August 10, 1906. In Venice, Clark 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 Arizona Painted Desert in 1926 and 1935.
From 1922–32, he lived primarily in Kent, Connecticut along the Housatonic river with such notable impressionist painters as Robert Nesbet and G. Glenn Newell. In 1932, Clark 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. Clark 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 a full academician in 1944. He was also president of the National Academy from 1956–59. Clark passed away in 1980.
Moonlight and Mist
By Eliot Clark
Located in Greenville, DE
New York City artist Eliot Candee Clark was well known for his impressionist landscapes. He was the son of painter Walter Clark. Many of his paintin...
Canvas, Oil
$2,500
Impressionist Landscape titled "Mountain View of Albermarle County, Virginia"
By Eliot Clark
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Mountain View in Albemarle County, Virginia by Eliot Clark is a serene and atmospheric landscape that reflects the artist’s deep connection to the American countryside. Clark, associ...
Oil, Board
Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) "Winter - Gloucester, Mass" Oil on canvas Signed "Emile A. Gruppe" (lower right) Canvas: 20 x 24 Inchesinches Framed: 27 x 31 inches Prove...
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 18 in W 22 in
"View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg" Will Foote, Impressionist Western Scene
Located in New York, NY
Will Foote View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg, circa 1927 Signed lower center; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on artist's board 12 x 16 inches Foote was born on June 29, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died on January 27, 1965, in Sarasota, Florida. He was in Old Lyme, 1901-65; and in Cos Cob, 1903. Will Howe Foote was one of the earliest artists at Old Lyme and one who adopted the town as home. He first went there the summer of 1901 with his uncle, William H. Howe, a painter of cattle, who had been told about the beauties of the countryside by Henry Ward Ranger. Foote had himself heard of Old Lyme when he had met Clark Voorhees in France. He and his uncle were both from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Foote's father was an executive in the furniture industry that made the city famous. Encouraged to be an artist by his father, he began his professional training at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1894. He became friends there with a fellow Michigan student, Frederick Frieseke, who would study with him again at the Art Students League in New York, where Foote worked in 1895-96 under H. Siddons Mowbray and Kenyon Cox. In 1897 he and Frieseke went to the Academic Julian in Paris, where Foote studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He was at Julian's until 1900, except for an Italian trip, summers at Laren, Holland, or Etaples, France, and a short period at Whistler's school in Paris. He exhibited twice at the Old Salon, and when he returned to the United States in 1900, he had a one-man exhibition in his hometown. Will Howe Foote's paintings were well received on his return from abroad. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design and became an associate member in 1910. His awards included a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Once he visited Old Lyme, Foote returned every summer. In 1902 he was hired as assistant to Frank DuMond at the Lyme Summer School of Art, which was sponsored by the Art Students League of New York. Sometime in 1903 he also taught a session in Cos Cob. After 1906, when the League moved its Lyme classes to Woodstock, New York, Foote continued in Old Lyme as a private instructor. In 1907 he was married to Helen Kirtland Freeman, whom he had met a year or two earlier when she had come to the Lyme art colony as a student of Henry Rankin Poore. Fellow artist William Chadwick was best man at the wedding. The Footes began building a house on Sill Lane in Old Lyme and upon its completion in 1909 spent every spring, summer and fall there, where Foote devoted full time to painting. The Gregory Smiths, old friends from Grand Rapids, arrived in Old Lyme in 1910 and became neighbors. Foote's early works in Connecticut, such as A Summer's Night reflect the artist's interest in soft, atmospheric scenes dominated by a single, overriding tone. The arrival of Childe Hassam and Walter Griffin...
Oil, Board
Sailing in Rockport Harbour
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left. In this painting, Morrell brings to life a bustling seascape off the coast of Rockport. The work showcases his artistic signature, with an impressionistic brushs...
Oil, Board
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
"Brighton Beach" Nathan Hoffman, New York, Sunny Day Landscape Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Brighton Beach, July 31, 1946 Signed, dated, and estate stamped on the reverse Oil on artist's board 10 x 13 1/2 inches Provenance: Esta...
Oil, Board
A Stone and Wood House in 19th-century Mamaroneck, New York
Located in San Francisco, CA
The painting may not illustrate your story, but it is universal—that desire to honor one’s forerunners and reflect on their daily lives. Consider the many opportunities, comforts and...
Board, Oil
$1,250
H 17.5 in W 20 in D 2.5 in
Brian Blood 'Monterey Bay' Plein Air California Impressionist Seascape Painting
By Brian Blood
Located in San Rafael, CA
Brian Blood (American, b. 1962) Monterey Bay, 2000 Oil on canvas board Signed lower right: BB signed, dated, and titled verso: Brian Blood, 2000 Monterey Bay 9in H x 12in L In a silvered gilt frame with linen mat and moulding: 17 1/4in H x 20in L Brian Blood is a resident of Pebble Beach, California. He began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. He then came to California to attend the Academy of Art College in San Francisco for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2003, Blood and his artist wife, Laurie Kersey...
Oil, Canvas
$950
H 14 in W 18 in D 1.5 in
Bright and colorful Impressionist coastal scene painting by George F. Schultz
By George Schultz
Located in Colfax, CA
'A warm summer day at a beachside home' best describes this colorful oil painting by George F. Schultz. George F. Schultz, (1869–1934), was a Chicago based artist, who trained at the...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$800
H 23.75 in W 27.5 in D 2 in
Edward Glafke 'Carmel River' Impressionist Landscape Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Edward Glafke (American, 1925-1997) Carmel River Oil on canvas Signed lower left Titled on the verso Canvas: 20in H x 24in L In a vintage giltwood frame: 24in H x 27.5 in L x 1.5in D...
Oil, Canvas
$1,800
H 12 in W 14 in
Antique American 1910 Oil on board Painting Seashore Island Beach Women framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
This evocative oil painting by Richard Sigafoos presents a solitary coastal rock formation rising against a softly illuminated seascape. Rendered with confident, expressive brushwork...
Oil, Board
$1,195
H 16 in W 20 in D 2 in
Antique American Impressionist Southern Swamp Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American oil painting. Framed. Measuring: 16 by 20 inches overall and 12 by 16 inches image alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Oil, Board
$15,000
H 27 in W 30 in
"Low Tide - Brittany, France, " Henriette Oberteuffer, Coastal Landscape
By Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer
Located in New York, NY
Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (1878 - 1962) Low Tide - Brittany, France Oil on canvasboard 18 x 21 1/2 inches Signed lower right Painter, printmaker, and teacher Henriette Amiard Oberteuffer (1878-1962) was born in Le Havre, France and studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. She moved with her husband and fellow artist George Oberteuffer...
Oil, Board
Plein Air Creekside, 8x9" oil on board
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Plein Air Creekside by Lu Haskew Oil 8x9" image size Landscape Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921-2009 "Life is good to me. Being able to go to my studio five days weekly and paint for several hours, living in a supportive community, having family and friends who encourage me--all have contributed to helping me become an artist. Being fortunate to study with some of the artists I admire has kept me painting from the garden, people and my favorite things. With the support of galleries, teaching and doing demos, how could I do anything else? My goal is to try to be the best I can be by always being a student, looking for new ideas and stretching my horizons." Upon retirement from a 33-year teaching career, Lu rented a studio in Loveland and began concentrating on her oil and watercolor painting. Learning from artists she had followed and admired throughout the years her painting became a full time career that lasted 17-years. Beginning in 1992, she studied with renowned painters Richard Schmid, Clyde Aspevig, Joyce Pike...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Provincetown Dunes
By Eliot Clark
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful impressionist Cape Cod Massachusetts landscape by well known American artist Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980). Clark was born in New York ...
Canvas, Oil
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H 19.5 in W 23.5 in D 1.25 in
Jackson Lake and Grand Tetons, Wyoming (Mountain Landscape Painting)
By Eliot Clark
Located in Denver, CO
An original oil painting by Eliot Clark (1883-1980), a mountain landscape of Jackson Lake and the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. Presented in a custom frame, o...
Oil, Board
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H 22.5 in W 28.5 in D 1.25 in
Untitled (The Grand Tetons and Jackson Lake, Wyoming Mountain Landscape)
By Eliot Clark
Located in Denver, CO
A mountain landscape painting of Grand Tetons and Jackson Lake, Wyoming by Elliot Candee Clark, original signed oil on canvas. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 2...
Oil
In the Canyons
By Eliot Clark
Located in Buffalo, NY
An impressionist oil painting by Eliot Clark (1883-1980). Oil on board, circa 1940. Displayed in a period impressionist frame. Image size, 18"L x 12"H. Signed lower left.
Canvas, Oil
Evening over the Virginia Blue Ridge
By Eliot Clark
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original signed oil on canvas by American artist Eliot Candee Clark (1883-1980) titled "Evening over the Virginia Blue Ridge", c. 1940's. Hand signed lower right by Clark. Framed beautifully. Provenance, ex collection: Kellogg Estate, Rocklands, Virginia. Framed size: 24" x 20". Canvas size: 20" x 16". Eliot Candee Clark was the son of American artist Walter Clark and Jennie Woodruff Clark. Initially influenced by the tonalists, he came to develop a unique style of impressionism. Eliot grew up painting under the guidance of his father, practicing out-of-doors, using pastel and watercolor. A child prodigy, Eliot submitted his first work to the New York Water Color Club at the age of nine and, in 1896, at age thirteen, to the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited almost annually until 1980. In the last year of the nineteenth century, Eliot and his father shared a studio in New York’s Van Dyke Building. And, by 1900, the work of the seventeen year-old was accepted for exhibition at the Society of American Artists’ annual. Painting with his father and some of Walter’s friends, including John H. Twachtman, Edward Potthast, Joseph R. DeCamp, and Frank Duveneck, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Eliot mastered the tonalist style and began to assimilate a few of the salient features of impressionism. Both Clarks admired the paintings of George Inness. In 1904, Eliot left for a two-year sojourn in Europe, where he traveled from Giverny to the Alps, from Venice to London, before returning to New York in 1906. Back in the Van Dyke Building, Eliot enjoyed the company of Bruce Crane, Karl Anderson, and others of his generation. Here, he painted in a typical impressionistic style, featuring the effects of sunlight and a spontaneous application of brightly contrasted dashes of color. Soon, the impressionist formula had been mastered, and Eliot began adapting it to his own interests. Following in the footsteps of his busy father, Eliot was presented with his first major one-man show at the Doll and Richards Gallery in Boston. His career picked up momentum as he exhibited regularly in national shows throughout the first decade of the century. In 1912, his works were seen in a one-man show at the Louis Katz Gallery in New York. He also won the Third Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy for Under the Trees. In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson honored him by purchasing one of his paintings. A three-man show at the Milwaukee Art Institute in 1919 included the works of Eliot Clark as well as to those of George Elmer Browne and Walter Griffin...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Blizzard in Central Park
By Eliot Clark
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on paper by Eliot Clark (1883-1980). An impressionist work of central park in a snow storm. Finely painted and a rare subject. Housed in a gold gilt frame. Image size, 18"L x...
Canvas, Oil