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
$395
H 16 in W 20 in D 1 in
Snow Scene with Old Mill - Early 20th Century Winter Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright winter landscape of an old mill in the snow by E. Harrison (American, 20th Century). Signed "E. H." lower left. Unframed. Image, 16"H x 20"L.
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$28,000
H 20 in W 24 in
Turquoise Creek - California Impressionist Oil on Board Landscape Painting
By Jean Mannheim
Located in Palm Desert, CA
“Turquoise Creek” is an oil on board painting by German-born artist, Jean Mannheim. While Mannheim was born in Germany, he trained in Paris but was very influenced by experiences in ...
Oil, Board
Gloucester
By Guy Carleton Wiggins
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist harbor scene in Gloucester, Massachusetts by American artist Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962). Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, and had a long and success...
Oil, Board
$6,500
H 17.5 in W 20 in
"Seascape" Henry Ward Ranger, Impressionist Coastal Scene, Atmospheric Sky
By Henry Ward Ranger
Located in New York, NY
Henry Ward Ranger Seascape, circa 1905 Estate stamp lower right Oil on academy board 11 1/4 x 13 7/8 inches A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colon...
Oil, Board
$1,800
H 18.38 in W 14.38 in
The Artist, American Impressionist, 1928, Oil on Canvas on Board, Painter, Woods
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Leon Foster Jones was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He studied under Joseph Rodefer DeCamp and Ernest Lee Major at the Cowles Art School in ...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$9,000
H 24 in W 28.5 in
"Provincetown Harbor" Colin Scott, New England, Sailboats, Harbor Scene
Located in New York, NY
Colin Scott Provincetown Harbor Signed lower right Oil on board 15 x 20 inches
Oil, Board
$3,000
H 16 in W 20 in
"Brighton Beach" Nathan Hoffman, New York, Sunny Day Landscape Impressionism
By Nathan Hoffman
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
$2,900
H 14.5 in W 11.75 in
Washington Square Park, American Impressionist, New York, Cityscape
By Roy Henry Brown
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Painter Roy H. Brown was born in Decatur, Illinois in 1879. He received his artistic training at the Academie Julian in Paris as well as at the Art Students League in New York City. ...
Oil, Board
$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
$7,600
H 25 in W 27 in
"Maine Coast, Ogunquit, " Ernest Albert, American Impressionism, Seascape
By Ernest Albert
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Albert (1857 - 1946) Maine Coast, Ogunquit, 1937 Oil on canvasboard 18 x 20 inches Signed and dated lower right; titled on a label on the reverse A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer who also became a landscape painter and muralist, Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, and showing early talent, received the Graham Art...
Oil, Board
$20,000
H 30 in W 35 in
"Winter Scene, " George Gardner Symons, Snowy Hill Landscape, Pennsylvania
By George Gardner Symons
Located in New York, NY
George Gardner Symons (1863 - 1930) Winter Scene Oil on canvas 20 x 25 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, St. Louis, Missouri William A. Karges Fine Art Gallery, Carmel, California Private Collection, Washington A landscape and marine artist, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and realism. His works are cited for their energy and simplicity, and he often did panoramic views. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1861, with the name of George Gardner Simon, but he changed his last name to Symons when he returned from study in England because of concern about anti-semitism. Not much is known about his early life. He first studied at the Chicago Art Institute where he became a close, life-long friend of William Wendt. They painted together in California and then in Cornwall, England in 1898. He also studied in Paris, and Munich and London, and joining a colony of artists at St. Ives, adopted the plein-air techniques of Julius Olsson, Adrian Stokes, and Rudolph Hellwag. He worked in Chicago as a commercial artist, and about 1903 returned to California with Wendt and built a studio in Laguna Beach and became active in western art societies including the California Art Club. He returned often, but maintained his primary studio...
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
H 8 in W 10.5 in D 1 in
"First Snow Winter Stream", American Impressionist Oil on Board, Framed
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
This early 19 Century charm of a painting is one of a series of intimate miniature oil paintings, painted on board, by Walter Emerson Baum. Baum's works are among the most sought-aft...
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