Claude Clark Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Claude Clark Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 12, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001, AMERICAN) SJUICE.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001, AMERICAN) SJUICE. Oil on canvas, 1961. Signed, Clark, lower right. Signed, C. Clark, on verso. 1015x762 mm; 40x30 inches. Provenance: The estate of the artist, (with the artist's hand inscribed label and his Oakland, CA typed address on the verso); thence by descent, private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Adit (Mine Shaft) (Perpetual Motion).
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Adit (Mine Shaft) (Perpetual Motion). Oil on cotton canvas, 1961. 914x813 mm; 36x32 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Signed and titled Adit (Mine Shaft) (Perpetual Motion) in ink, verso and on the stretcher bar. Provenance: the estate of the artist, with the artist's hand inscribed label and his Oakland, CA typed address on the verso; thence by descent, private collection. An adit or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine. From 1961-63, Claude Clark painted a striking series of Abstract Expressionist paintings while studying painting at the the University of California at Berkeley. Clark obtained his Masters of Arts degree from Berkeley in 1962.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 03, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Man with Bunch.
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Man with Bunch. Oil on masonite board, 1944. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches. Titled, dated, inscribed "9x12" in ink on the artist's label, verso. Provenance: the artist, Oakland, CA; the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia.. After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art., Claude Clark was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who gave him access to his famous collection at the Barnes Foundation from 1939-1944. In 1944 his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark also was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Worskhop and the WPA workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped develop carborundum etching.
Swann Auction Galleries
Sep. 14, 2024
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, Soldering
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Claude Clark 1915-2001 Soldering 1940 oil on masonite 12 x 18 inches signed; titled and dated verso on artist's label
Black Art Auction
May. 18, 2024
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, Parasol
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Claude Clark 1915-2001 Parasol 1953 oil on board 16 x 12 inches signed; artist label verso with title and date
Black Art Auction
May. 18, 2024
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, Soldering
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Claude Clark 1915-2001 Soldering 1940 oil on masonite 12 x 18 inches signed; titled and dated verso on artist's label
Black Art Auction
May. 18, 2024
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, Turning a Machine Gun Barrel
Est: $700 - $900
Claude Clark 1915-2001 Turning a Machine Gun Barrel c. 1940 stone lithograph 10 x 13 image 11-1/2 x 16 sheet signed, titled
Black Art Auction
May. 02, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001, AMERICAN) Crucible.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001, AMERICAN) Crucible. Oil on canvas, 1961. Signed, Clark, lower right. Signed, C. Clark, on verso. 952x762 mm; 37½x30 inches. Provenance: The estate of the artist, (with the artist's hand inscribed label and his Oakland, CA typed address on the verso); thence by descent, private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Good Samaritan.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Good Samaritan. Crayon and graphite on printed cream wove paper, 1946. 127x203mm; 5x8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, Texas. This image, drawn on a page from a paperback book, is an imagined wartime scene of an African American soldier aiding a civilian victim.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Plow.
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Plow. Oil on burlap canvas, 1944. 505x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed and titled in ink, upper stretcher bar verso. Provenance: the estate of the artist. Exhibited: Artists of the 1930s and 1940s, California Afro-American Museum (CAAM), 1984, with the label on the frame back. The Plow is a significant, modernist painting by Claude Clark, made during his most innovative period as a young artist living in Philadelphia. After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art., he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who gave him access to his famous collection at the Barnes Foundation from 1939-1944. In 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was just the second art work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark also was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the WPA Printmaking Workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped Thrash develop his innovative carborundum etching technique. Clark's paintings and prints are in many institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the De Young Museum. Messenger p. 48.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men in Spain.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men in Spain. Carborundum mezzotint with hand coloring on cream wove paper, circa 1939. 114x171 mm; 4½x6¾ inches, full margins. Proof, aside from an unknown edition. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A scarce print and image of the Spanish Civil War based on Clark's same-titled 1939 painting of soldiers carrying wounded compatriots during the Spanish Civil War.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2024
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Two Dancers.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Two Dancers. Ink and graphite on cream wove paper, circa 1939. 203x279 mm; 8x11 inches. Signed in pencil, lower edge. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection. Two Dancers could be a prepratory drawing for Clark's WPA lithograph Boogie Woogie which is held in various museum collections.
Swann Auction Galleries
Nov. 14, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK, SIGNED, OOB
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Claude Clark, Signed, OOB. Provenance: Private Philadelphia Estate. Frame: 21" x 15" Scene: 17" x 11"
Ashcroft and Moore
Oct. 19, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Playoff.
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Playoff. Oil on wood panel, 1941. 591x369 mm; 23 1/4x14 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the artist, Oakland, CA, with his typed label on the verso; thence by descent, private collection. Playoff is an excellent example of Claude Clark's modernist, impastoed painting of the early 1940s, and a scarce prewar artwork depicting an integrated sports scene. On the verso of the thick panel is a partial woodcut carving. Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker whose family moved from Alabama to Philadelphia in 1923. After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who gave him access to his famous collection at the Barnes Foundation from 1939-1944. In 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was just the second art work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark also was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Rayond Steth in the WPA Printmaking Workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped Thrash develop his innovative carborundum etching technique.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 19, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) House Boat.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) House Boat. Oil on masonite board, 1957. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the artist, Oakland, CA, with his typed label on the verso; thence by descent, private collection. This charming house boat painting dates from Claude Clark's time in Sacramento, CA. In 1955, Clark left his teaching position at Talladega College and began his own undergraduate studies at Sacramento State University where he received his BA in 1958. Clark then moved to Oakland in 1959, and attended the University of California at Berkeley where he obtained a MA degree in 1962.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Group of three drawings.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Group of three drawings. Munitions Warehouse * World War II Soldiers * Pendle Hill/Quaker Anti-War Center. Each graphite and pencil on thin buff wove paper, circa 1942-46. Each 127x203 mm; 5x8 inches. Each signed in pencil, lower left or right. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Camp.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Camp. Oil on masonite board, circa 1946. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: the estate of the artist, with the artist's typed label on the verso; private collection, Philadelphia. The Camp is an excellent example of Claude Clark's modernist, impastoed painting of the 1940s. In the late 1940s and 50s, Clark painted many black subjects taken from his travels in Africa and the Caribbean. Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker whose family moved from Alabama to Philadelphia in 1923. After winning a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and in 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after a painting by Horace Pippin. His first New York show was at the Bonestell Gallery in 1945, followed by one at the Michael Freilich's Roko Gallery 1946-1947. He returned to his native Alabama to give an art workshop at Talladega College, AL in 1948. Offered a permanent teaching position, Clark founded the art department at Talladega where he taught until 1955. His paintings and prints are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and the de Young Museum, San Francisco.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 06, 2023
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drilling the Tunnel.
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drilling the Tunnel. Oil on illustration board, 1970. 610x458 mm; 40x30 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right. Provenance: the artist's estate, Oakland, CA, with their labels on the verso; private collection. Drilling the Tunnel is a significant painting from Claude Clark's 1970 series of construction worker paintings, and an excellent example of his Californian period. Clark continued to be an innovative painter in his later career in Oakland. Clark left Talladega College in 1955 to pursue a bachelor's degree at Sacramento State University and then a master's degree at the University of California at Berkeley. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1962, Clark became an art instructor at San Francisco State University. He then was an art instructor at Merritt College in Oakland from 1968 until his retirement in 1981. Clark received his first retrospective in 1972 with the exhibiton A Retrospective Exhibition, 1937 – 1971, Paintings by Claude Clark at Fisk University in Nashville. His paintings and prints are now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution and the de Young Museum, San Francisco.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 31, 2022
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Ritual Dance.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Ritual Dance. Oil on masonite board, 1946. 430x330 mm; 17x13 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: estate of the artist, Oakland, CA; private collection, New York, acquired at Swann Galleries, February 23, 2010. Claude Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker whose family moved from Alabama to Philadelphia in 1923. After winning a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and in 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after a painting by Horace Pippin. Clark was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop of the WPA from 1939 - 1942, where he helped develop carborundum etching. He returned to his native Alabama to give an art workshop at Talladega College, AL in 1949. He stayed and eventually created the art department at the school, where he taught until 1955. His paintings and prints are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Messenger, p. 48.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 27, 2022
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Three Men.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Three Men. Etching on wove paper. 114x152mm; 4 1/2x6 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. 1939. A very good impression. This scarce etching is based on Claude Clark's same-titled 1939 painting of soldiers carrying their wounded compatriots during the Spanish Civil War. Clark also made a carborundum mezzotint entitled Three Men in Spain of the same subject.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 27, 2022
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Tanning a Machine Gun Barrel.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Tanning a Machine Gun Barrel. Lithograph on cream wove paper. 254x330 mm; 10x13 inches, 1 1/4-inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower edge. Published by Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, Philadelphia. 1941.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 27, 2022
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Drill Press.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Drill Press. Carbograph (carborundum etching) on cream wove paper. 241 mm; 9 1/2 inches diameter (tondo), wide margins. Signed in ball point pen and ink, lower right. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941. A very good, dark impression. We have found only one other impression of this scarce WPA print at auction in the past 20 years. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, Texas.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 27, 2022
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Old Swedes' Church.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Old Swedes' Church. Lithograph. 292x228 mm; 11 1/2x9 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), PA. 1940. Another impression of this scarce WPA print is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 13, 2022
Claude F. Clark, Sr. (American, 1915-2001) Grandmother, 1977 Oil on board 24 x 1
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Claude F. Clark, Sr. (American, 1915-2001) Grandmother, 1977 Oil on board 24 x 18 inches (61.0 x 45.7 cm) Signed and dated lower right: C. Clark '77 Titled and dated on reverse Label with artist's address on reverse PROVENANCE: Private collection, Cape Coral, Florida. HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
Oct. 07, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Plow.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) The Plow. Oil on burlap canvas, 1944. 505x610 mm; 20x24 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto. Signed and tited in ink, upper stretcher bar verso. Provenance: collection of the artist, with his typed label on the verso; the estate of the artist, Oakland, CA. Exhibited: Artists of the 1930s and 1940s, California Afro-American Museum (CAAM), 1984, with the label on the frame back. The Plow is a significant, modernist painting by Claude Clark, made during his most innovative period as a young artist living in Philadelphia. After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art., he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who gave him access to his famous collection at the Barnes Foundation from 1939-1944. In 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was just the second art work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark also was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Rayond Steth in the WPA Printmaking Workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped Thrash develop his innovative carborundum etching technique. Clark's paintings and prints are in many institutional collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Newark Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the De Young Museum. Messenger p. 48.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Medal of Honor.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Medal of Honor. Crayon and graphite on printed cream wove paper, 1944. 127x203 mm; 5x8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower edge. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, Texas. This image on a reclaimed page from a book is a scarce example of an interracial wartime image of American soldiers. Troop integration did not occur in basic training camps until after World War II when President Harry Truman reluctantly integrated the Armed Forces in 1948.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 07, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men. Etching on wove paper, 1939. 114x152mm; 4 1/2x6 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. This scarce etching is based on Claude Clark's same-titled 1939 painting of soldiers carrying their wounded compatriots during the Spanish Civil War. Clark also made a carborundum mezzotint entitled Three Men in Spain of the same subject.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 17, 2021
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, Workers
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
Claude Clark 1915-2001 Workers 1941 oil on panel There is a wood carving apparently by Clark of a Thanksgiving scene on the verso; the title, "Pennsylvania" runs across the top, so it was possibly cover art for a publication. 16 1/4 x 21 inches signed titled on verso; label from the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. Two different labels indicate the artist's various addresses in Philadelphia and Oakland.
Black Art Auction
Jul. 17, 2021
Claude Clark, 1915-2001, On Guard
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Claude Clark 1915-2001 On Guard ** Please note this work is currently on loan to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. If you choose to buy this lot, transfer of title will be made immediately and the artwork will be delivered to you at the conclusion of the loan. Please contact us for more information. 1938 oil on board 19.5 x 10.5 inches signed
Black Art Auction
May. 22, 2021
Claude F. Clark, Sr, 1915-2001, Betty, Model
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Claude F. Clark, Sr 1915-2001 Betty, Model 1935-1937 oil on board 16 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches signed and dated verso (this is typical for Clark)
Black Art Auction
May. 22, 2021
Claude F. Clark, Sr, 1915-2001, Workers
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Claude F. Clark, Sr 1915-2001 Workers c. 1950 oil on board 24 x 20 inches signed verso (typical for the artist) Provenance: private collection, Detroit, MI
Black Art Auction
Apr. 22, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drill Press.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drill Press. Carbograph (carborundum etching) on cream wove paper, 1941. 241 mm; 9 1/2 inches diameter (tondo), wide margins. Signed in ball point pen and ink, lower right. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia, 1941. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, Texas. A very good, dark impression of this scarce WPA print - we have not found a record of another impression at auction.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 22, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Conversations.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Conversations. Lithograph on buff wove paper, circa 1940-41. 228x304 mm; 9x12 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed in pencil, lower margin. Provenance: the estate of the artist; thence by descent, private collection, Texas. A very good, dark impression of this scarce lithograph - another impression is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 04, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Scribe of Jive (Jivin' Scribe).
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Scribe of Jive (Jivin' Scribe) . Carborundum etching. 156x273 mm; 6 1/8x10 3/4 inches, wide margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. 1941. A very good, dark impression of this rare print - with a lithograph partially printed on the verso; another impression is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Claude Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker who was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Worshop and the WPA workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped develop carborundum etching. After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art., he was later supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes. In 1944 his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after Horace Pippin..
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 04, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Soldering.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Soldering . Lithograph. 343x279 mm; 13 1/2x11 inches, 1/4- to 1 inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941. The matrix for this lithograph and the preceding lot were photographed on the stone before printing by Jerome Rolland, Federal Works Agency, Work Project Administration, with the caption: "Claude Clark and Zeb Johnson shown working on civil defense imagery, 1941." The photograph is on deposit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. John Ittmann,Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered. p. 45, fig. 63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 04, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Milling a Gun Sight.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Milling a Gun Sight . Lithograph. 317x254 mm; 12 1/2x10 inches, 1/4- to 1 inch margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Pennsylvania Art Program, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941. With a lithograph of a drill press printed on the verso. The matrix for this lithograph and the following lot were photographed on the stone before printing by Jerome Rolland, Federal Works Agency, Work Project Administration, with the caption: "Claude Clark and Zeb Johnson shown working on civil defense imagery, 1941." The photograph is on deposit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. John Ittmann, Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered. p. 45, fig. 63.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 04, 2021
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Evening Meal.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915-2001) Evening Meal . Etching and aquatint. 124x171 mm; 4 7/8x6 3/4 inches, wide margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Federal Art Project, WPA, Philadelphia. 1941. An richly inked, hand-wiped impression of this scarce WPA print, other impressions are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Newark Art Museum. Evening Meal is a rare view of life in the South by Claude Clark - he grew up in rural Georgia where his father was a sharecropper.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 04, 2020
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Ritual Dance.
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Ritual Dance. Oil on masonite, 1946. 430x330 mm; 17x13 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Provenance: estate of the artist, Oakland, CA; private collection, New York, acquired at Swann Galleries, February 23, 2010. Claude Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker whose family moved from Alabama to Philadelphia in 1923. After winning a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, he was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, and in 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop of the WPA from 1939-1942, where he helped develop carborundum etching. He returned to his native Alabama to give an art workshop at Talladega College, AL in 1949. He stayed and eventually created the art department at the school, where he taught until 1955. His paintings and prints are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and the de Young Museum, San Francisco. Messenger, p. 48.
Swann Auction Galleries
May. 16, 2020
Claude Clark, 1915 - 2001, Rhododendrons, Oil on board, 10 x 9 inches
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Claude Clark 1915 - 2001 Rhododendrons Oil on board 1938-39 Signed, titled and dated 10 x 9 inches
Black Art Auction
Nov. 24, 2019
Claude Clark Betty Model
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Claude Clark (1915-2001) Betty, Model, 1935-37 oil on board signed, titled, and dated 16-3/4 x 15-3/4 inches framed
Treadway Gallery
Oct. 08, 2019
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drafting.
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Drafting. Oil on thin board, circa 1940-41. 305x457 mm; 12x18 inches. Signed in oil, lower right, recto. Provenance: the estate of the artist, Oakland, CA, with the artist's typed label with his Philadelphia address on the verso. This striking modernist painting and very scarce image of an African-American architect or architectural student is an excellent example of the early oil painting of Claude Clark. It was painted shortly after the artist was a student at The Pennsylvania School of Industrial Arts. In 1935, Clark won a four-year scholarship to study at the commercial art school. By his third year, Clark won the painting prize and had adopted his palette knife technique. From 1939-1942, Claude Clark was also a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop and the WPA workshop where he work in lithography and carborundum etching. In 1939, Clark was accepted to the Barnes Foundation for a fellowship study. In 1944, his painting Cutting Pattern was only the second work by an African-American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation's permanent collection, after Horace Pippin. Today, Clark's paintings are found in numerous museum collections including the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2019
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men in Spain.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Three Men in Spain. Carborundum mezzotint with hand coloring on cream wove paper, circa 1939. 114x171 mm; 4 1/2x6 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin A very scarce print and image of the Spanish Civil War based on Clark's 1939 painting - we have not located another impression of this WPA-era carborundum print. Claude Clark was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop from 1939-1942.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 04, 2019
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Blind Future.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Blind Future. Carborundum mezzotint on cream wove paper, 1941. 127x102 mm; 5x4 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, titled and numbered 7/25 in pencil, lower margin recto. Inscirbed "carbograph etching" and dated in pencil, verso. A very scarce print - we have not located another impression of this WPA-era carborundum print. Claude Clark was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop from 1939-1942.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 05, 2019
Claude Clark (GA/CA, 1915-2001), City Skyline
Est: $25 - $25,000
Claude Clark (GA/CA, 1915-2001), City Skyline 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. 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. Private NC Collection Additional high-resolution photos are available at LelandLittle.com
Leland Little Auctions
Dec. 01, 2018
Claude Clark (GA/CA, 1915-2001), City Skyline
Est: $1,000 - $3,000
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. 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. Private NC Collection Additional high-resolution photos are available at LelandLittle.com
Leland Little Auctions
Oct. 04, 2018
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Les Miserables.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Les Miserables. Lithograph, 1940. 184x140 mm; 7 1/4x5 1/2 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. A very scarce print - we have not located another impression of this WPA-era lithograph. Claude Clark was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop from 1939-1942.
Swann Auction Galleries
Oct. 04, 2018
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Saturday Night.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Saturday Night. Carborundum mezzotint with hand coloring on cream wove paper, 1939-1941. 124x152 mm; 4 7/8x6 inches, full margins. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 15, 2018
CLAUDE CLARK CAMBOUR COLOR PRINT, #311/350
Est: $100 - $300
CLAUDE CLARK CAMBOUR (FR. B-1940), COLOR PRINT, #311/350, H 21", W 27", FLOWER GARDEN:Claude Clark Cambour (b-1940), color print depicting a flower garden, #311/350 and signed. Purchased from Park West Galleries by the consignor.
DuMouchelles