DUCKS

Black & white /Color print originals
Size is (4 x 6 inches) (Price)
Medium of print [linoleum on news print]

During the summer of 1958, the Clarks moved from Sacramento to Oakland, California. They lived down the street from White Horse Inn located on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and 66th Street, which served as a one mile prohibition demarcation point for students attending University Of California in Berkeley. In those days if Cal students wanted an alcoholic drink, they had to travel one mile, or more from the university campus to get it.

This was an era of the "Free Speech Movement" and its charismatic leader Mario Savio. Turmoil surrounding the movement would not only change U.C. and it's bedroom community of Berkeley for ever, but would effect changes in countless other college communities and their cities across the nation.

The Free Speech Movement had its roots in a much older student civil rights movement which began February 1, 1950 when 4 freshmen college students began the first student nonviolent sit-ins at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. With in three months, thousands of college students; European and African American, were coming to Greensboro, taking part in the training and development of a New Civil Rights Movement. Woolworth lunch counter was integrated with-in three months, and by the end of that first year"... hotels, movie theaters, library [facilities], super markets, amusement parks and a host of ....similar establishments" were integrated as well. By the time the Montgomery, Alabama "Bus Boycott" began in 1955, the student civil rights movement had been in full swing for five years and had already set the standards for organizing large numbers of people into a peaceful demonstration. They were using principles acquired from check {Sp} Mahatma Guandi {SP} and Henry David Thoreau. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would later join forces with students after 1960. To the top

Directly across Telegraph Avenue from the White Horse Inn was a taxidermist shop where several men earned a living stuffing animals for local trophy enthusiast, who hunted and fished for sport. "Ducks", a linoleum relief print was produced in the fall of 1959, after the painting of Ducks which was painted during the summer of same year. The block was printed on news print sent to family members and friends, during the Christmas holidays. Each print had the artist's signature, title and some times the year the print was made. These prints were not numbered additions. Any one owning an original has something of considerable value.

BASIC INFORMATION

California Valley Quail painted 1959
Sizes are (12 x 16 inches)
Medium of painting [oil on board]
Clark's son painted the fish on left

CALIFORNIA VALLEY QUAIL

During the summer of 1959, the younger Claude Lockhart Clark, (now 14 years old) was starting his career as a sculptor. As a reward towards his efforts, the younger Clark was given a paint box, like his father's, and materials to mix and tube his own paints, just as he had seen his father do for little more than a decade. The fish in the upper left is the younger Clark's first attempt at using oils and a pallet knife. To the top

The son tagged along to the taxidermist with his father to find out if it would be possible to make a few sketches later to be used in paintings produced that summer. What began first as tolerance developed into a genuine interest in diverse skills involving a group of craftsmen. The taxidermists looked forward to seeing the end result the elder Clark produced each week. They in turned took trophies of interest down from the shelf and shared information about names and habitat of each animal. The elder Clark was allowed to paint on the spot. Each animal he wished to paint was placed out side in the sun light so that Clark could make a painting using natural lighting.

The elder Clark had made a practice of painting flowers as seen in their natural environment rather than show them in a flower vase. Based on information given by the taxidermist, and Clark's own field research, Clark was able to recreate the environment in which the animals had lived. Clark was familiar with various California environments, since he and his family had visited California back roads from the Sierra Nevada region, deserts, missions, wineries, wildlife parks in and around Northern and Southern California since the middle fifties.

Price of one black & white print original is $350.00. One single color print is $375.00. For upgrade from newsprint to quality print paper add $25.00. Add $12.00 for shipping and handling in the U.S. and $5.00 added for countries outside the U.S.We ship anywhere in the world. Call us concerning over night and express rates.

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