Background
Clark, Alson Skinner was born on March 25, 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alson Ellis and Sarah Morse (Skinner) Clark.
Clark, Alson Skinner was born on March 25, 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alson Ellis and Sarah Morse (Skinner) Clark.
Educated The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1898. Chase Art School, New New York 1898-1899. Whistler and Mucha schools, Paris, 1900-1901.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, his art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago (where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11), the Art Students League of New York, and in the atelier of William Merritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France. He taught fine art at Occidental College, and was director of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena.
His memberships in arts organizations included the Pasadena Society of Artists and the California Art Club.
His work was included in the Tonal Impressionism exhibition curated by Harry Muir Kurtzworth in 1937, along with the works of Frank Tenney Johnson, Frank Tolles Chamberlain and Theodore Lukits which was held in the Los Angeles Art Association Gallery at the Los Angeles Public Library. In addition to landscape paintings, Alson Clark painted murals for the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, and the fire curtain of the Pasadena Playhouse, depicting a Spanish galleon in full sail.
A group of murals completed in 1929 can still be seen at the former 1st Trust & Savings Bank at 587 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. The murals consist of four panels standing approximately ten feet in height, each depicting a major southern California industry: oil drilling, citrus farming, the movies, and shipping.
Club, 1922, Los Angeles Museum Artist Member Allied Artists America, Chicago Society Artists, Print-makers of Los Los Angeles Joined United States Naval Reserve, 1917, and sent as interpreter, rank of ensign to France.
Married Atta Medora McMullin, September 30, 1902.
