The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Edward Clark

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Edward Clark

8/23/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.201

Painter Edward Clark (1926 - ) is an internationally renowned artist who is credited as being the first painter to work on a shaped canvas. Clark was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/23/2005, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 15m 20s

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Clark, Edward, 1926-

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Abstract painter Edward Clark was born in the Storyville neighborhood of New Orleans on May 6, 1926. Internationally renowned for over five decades for being a groundbreaking artist, Clark was credited as being the first painter to work on a shaped canvas. Influenced by the sand art techniques of the Pueblo people of the American Southwest, Clark also developed an innovative technique of working with dry pigments.Clark received his formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1947 and...