Oil on canvas panel, signed at lower right, inscribed "Claude Clark" on the verso, framed.

SS 13.5 x 17.5 in.; DOA 16 3/8 x 20 3/8 in.

Private NC Collection

Born on a tenant farm in Rockingham, Georgia, Clark's family moved to Philadelphia in 1923 during the Great Migration. Interested in art from a young age, he studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation. A revered instructor, Clark taught at Talladega College in Alabama and then at Merritt College in Oakland, CA. This painting likely dates to his California years and possibly depicts the morning fog in the San Francisco Bay area.

Good estate condition.

$1,000 - 3,000