AFRICAN METROPOLIS PROFILES in ART
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HIGH POINTS IN CLAUDE CLARK'S CAREER ![]()
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AS PRINTMAKER, PAINTER, COLLEGE PROFESSOR AND MENTOR TO YOUNGER ARTISTS
PRINTMAKER: Worked as a printmaker in stone lithography, metal plate intaglio etching, acquatint and carbograph on the Federal Arts Project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1939 to 1942. He worked under carbograph inventor Dox Thash, while on the projects.
Clark demonstrated how carbographs were done and made several prints while teaching at Sacramento State College in 1956.
From December 1942 until the early 1960's Clark did linoleum relief prints for each year.
PAINTER: Clark is a colorist. He has worked in transparent Watercolors, acrylic and oil.