MANANA

BASIC INFORMATION

Color print reproductions -------
Sizes are (12 x 16 inches) (price)
Medium of painting [oil on board]

MAÑANA (1950) To the bottom

The design for the painting Mañana came from the island of Puerto Rico, where Clark lived during the summer of 1950 sketching and painting. The word "mañana" rooted in Latin as "morning", evolved in Spanish meaning "tomorrow". Among simple country folk using gestures and body language, mañana can reach from earth to the sun, moon and the stars. In Puerto Rico, many of the poor desired to break from the soil and head for the land of the money tree and streets paved with gold. Others had flown to the land of deferred dreams, and chose to hurry back to Puerto Rico.

While sketching along mountain roads, Clark met such a thirteen-year old lad, happy in his "land of eternal spring." As he and Clark talked, a refreshing tropical storm came on suddenly. He invited Clark into his humble home nearby, coaxing his grandmother from an adjoining room. She has shy only because she did not speak English but, using her grandson as an interpreter, grandma discussed the war and humanity (America had just entered a conflict with Korea). Claude Clark had a most rewarding afternoon. Her grandson has an excel lent interpreter. they all enjoyed the dialogue. Grandma has witty and humorous!

So MAÑANA is a new tomorrow in Diaspora or in the homeland, where poor folk hill one day take back their land. Said Clark: "That Puerto Rican grandmother is certain of that tomorrow, even though her physical travels have never reached more than a radius of 25 miles from home!" ---- (framed work looks like this!)

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