1930s Eliot Candee Clark Impressionist Maritime Painting

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An American classic marine seascape featuring a 3 masted clipper gliding along choppy water under a dramatically vibrant cloudy sky. … Read more An American classic marine seascape featuring a 3 masted clipper gliding along choppy water under a dramatically vibrant cloudy sky. Signed and dated lower right. Titled “Ship Magellan” and signed on reverso e c Clark 32. Oil on Board
Born in New York 1880
Died
Son of landscape painter Walter Clark and Jennifer Woodruff Clark, a student of psychic phenomena, Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style. Moving to Albemarle, Virginia in 1932, he was one of the few Impressionist* artists of the Southern states. Likely this was a result of his association with James Whistler and his painting in 1900 at Gloucester, Massachusetts with John Twachtman, a family friend. Showing his obvious interest in Impressionism, he wrote a book about its exponents including Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, Julian Weir, and Robert Vonnoh.

Clark was a teacher including at the National Arts Club* from 1943 See less