Background
Clark, Eliot Candee was born on March 27, 1883 in New York City. Son of Walter and Jennie (Woodruff) Clark.
Clark, Eliot Candee was born on March 27, 1883 in New York City. Son of Walter and Jennie (Woodruff) Clark.
Education public and high schools, New New York Self taught in art
Formerly teacher Art Students’ League, New York City. Teacher Savannah Art Club, 1924-1925. Represented in New York Water Color Club at 9 and in National Academy at 13 years of age.
Residence and travel abroad, 1904-1906.
Painting trip in Painted Desert in Arizona, 1926, 35, in Himalayas, travel and study in India, 1937-1938. Specialty landscape; exhibited in important annual exhibitions
Retrospective exhibited music of University of Virginia. Exhibited Savannah Telfair Academy, 1977.
Represented in Maryland.
Institute, Muncie (Indiana) Institute Dayton (Ohio) Museum, Fort Worth Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York City, others Retrospective exhibition (1905-1975) University of Virginia Museum, 1975. “Rolling Country,” purchased by Woodrow Wilson, “Winds of Destiny,” Ranger Fund Purchase, National Academy of Design, 1922.
Represented in several permanent collections.
Member council India Institute. Member of council National Academy of Design, 1946-1948, correspondent secretary, 1948-1956, president, 1956-1959. Fellow Metropolitan Museum.
Member Allied Artists American (president 1948-1952, certificate of merit 1972), New York Society Painters.
Member International Institute Arts and Letters, New York Water Color. Clubs: Century Association, Salmagundi.
Member), National Arts of New York (life member
Married Elizabeth Trowbridge Egleston, April. Married second, Margaret Winslow Fowler, July 8, 1944.