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Alson S. Clark (
25 March,
1876 -
23 March,
1949) was an American painter best remembered for his
impressionist landscapes. Born in
Chicago,
Illinois, his art education included training at the
Art Institute of Chicago (where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11), the
Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of
William Merritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in
Paris,
France. He served in the
US Army as an aerial photographer during
World War I. In
1920 he and his wife relocated to
Pasadena, California. He taught fine art at
Occidental College, and was director of the
Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena.
His memberships in arts organizations included the
Pasadena Society of Artists and the
California Art Club.
Public art
In addition to landscape paintings, Alson Clark painted
murals for the
Cathay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, and the curtain of the
Pasadena Playhouse. A group of murals completed in
1929 can still be seen at the former 1st Trust & Savings Bank at 587 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. The murals consist of four panels standing approximately ten feet in height, each depicting a major southern California industry:
oil drilling,
citrus farming, the
movies, and
shipping.
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