RAIN

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Sizes are (20 x 24 inches) (price)
Medium of painting [oil on board]

RAIN (1950) To the bottom

Claude Clark lived in Puerto Rico during the summer rainy season of 1950. He lived in a small wooden house, on poles about six feet from the soil on a small experimental farm. Clark has surrounded daily by the Puerto Rican workers and their: families, and they developed a mutual respect for each other.

The men here interested in what Clark painted and sometimes ran bits of the culture past him to see how it grabbed him. Workers going home from the field would gather outside his cabin sometimes, Look up at the painting drying near the rafters, and have exciting discussions in Spanish one afternoon; while he was sitting on the covered deck of the cabin, the rain came pounding across the green valley foliage,then past the house and those beyond. The workers were soon flushed from the fields and some of them came running past the place in single files. Each had a large banana leaf stretched across the length of his body. Clarks use of Spanish has limited, but the body language has usually clear. As one worker ran past, he looked up at Clark and grinned knowingly: "I'll bet you've never seen this before." He had not. Claude Clark made a rapid sketch with felt brush and a couple of days later his painting called "RAIN" was finished.

"Rain" (sometimes called Rain In The Tropics) is now apart of the Hammonds House Collection in Atlanta, Georgia. Print reproduction appeared in Whoopie Goldberg film titled "Ghost." - -- (framed work looks like this!)

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