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Eliot Clark
Landscape with Trees, 1930s
Son of landscapist Walter Clark, Eliot Clark began painting seriously as a teenager. Following training at the Art Students League and with American impressionist John Twachtman, he adopted a tonalist palette and fluid brushwork. His paintings -- such as Landscape with Trees -- were praised for their "lyricism, romance, and wistfulness." Also a skillful writer, Clark published articles about his international travels and biographies of several late-19th-century American painters.
Beginning in 1932, Clark divided his time between New York City and his summer home in Albemarle County, Virginia, where he painted views of rolling countryside and small towns. After serving on the Board of Governors and as a painting instructor at the University of Virginia, Clark settled permanently near Charlottesville in 1959. |