TOGETHER

BASIC INFORMATION

Color print reproductions -------
Sizes are (18 x 24 inches) (price)
Medium of painting [oil on board]

TOGETHER (1961) To the bottom

In 1950 Claude Clark went to Haiti, one year after the Haitian Exposition at Port-Au-Prince. Paul E. Magloire was the new black leader and many small industries were being stimulated and encouraged. Glen Lukens, Art professor at U.C.L A. had helped Clark with ceramics at Talladega College and has deeply involved in,ceramic projects in Haiti. He asked Clark to visit some of these projects of his proteges, Fritz Racine and Marcus Douyon. Douyon had used Racine's gas kiln to bare clay vertical pipes to use in his wood burning kilns in the country. Traditionally poor Haitians ate from calabash utensils. The strategy in the mountains was to build a ceramic center next to a health clinic: Patients were served food at the clinic in the ceramic dishes.

Clark said-"the jeep ride into the mountains has so rough that I stood most of the way." He took black and white snapshots at each stop. The painting together was done in 1961 from material gathered on that trip. The couple were seen sitting on the bumper of the jeep at a clinic.

Clark explained: "It was a hot sunny day in the mountains: Creatively I pushed the man slightly into the shadows,pulling the woman,mask-like, slightly forward, But they are together."(to-get-her)

"Together" is now apart of the Hammonds House Collection in Atlanta, Georgia.

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