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Walter Clark

Artist

Centurion, 1892–1917

Born 9 March 1848 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Died 12 March 1917 in Bronxville, New York

Proposed by Charles Y. Turner, Frederick Dielman, and H. Bolton Jones

Elected 3 December 1892 at age forty-four

Century Memorial

American landscape painting suffered a loss from the death of Walter Clark, once a student under George Inness. Although trained as a sculptor, landscape painting held his final endeavor, and in that field he attained distinction by his sensitive and sympathetic work. He was a National Academician, and a member of many artist societies. Clark was somewhat favored by fortune, a circumstance which left him free to direct his work as he saw fit, and paint slowly.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook