Clark, Agnes Selkirk, 1898-1983

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Agnes Selkirk Clark was born in Janesville, Wis., in 1898. She attended the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, 1915-1918, then worked in the Des Moines office of Pearse & Robinson as a drafter and planting supervisor, 1918-1919. In 1920 she moved to New York and worked for well-known landscape architect and teacher Ellen Biddle Shipman for two years. After marrying architect Cameron Clark, she opened her own office at 101 Park Avenue in New York and continued her practice there until moving to Fairfield, Conn. Agnes Clark was elected a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1952. Her work primarily includes residential commissions at estates in Santa Barbara, Phoenix, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Of her documented commissions, 72% were executed in Fairfield or Greens Farms. In the 1960s, she and her husband retired and moved to the Caribbean and later, in 1969, to Guatemala, where she died in 1983.

From the description of Agnes Selkirk Clark landscape architecture records, 1925-1976. (Fairfield Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 79838075

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creatorOf Clark, Agnes Selkirk, 1898-1983. Agnes Selkirk Clark landscape architecture records, 1925-1976. Fairfield Historical Society Library
referencedIn Tram Combs correspondence with Agnes Selkirk Clark, 1958 University of Delaware Library - Special Collections
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correspondedWith Combs, Tram, 1924- person
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Connecticut--Fairfield
Connecticut--Greens Farms
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aLandscape architectural projects
Landscape architectural projects
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Women landscape architects
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Birth 1898

Death 1983

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