Alson Skinner Clark Original California Plein Air Vintage Antique American Impressionist Landscape With Cottage Oil Painting

Alson S. Clark (25 March 1876 - 23 March 1949) was an American Impressionist painter more prominently remembered for his impressionist landscapes. 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. Alson Skinner Clark was highly influenced by the French Impressionist painting movement. Some of his studies were conducted in Paris under James McNeil Whistler and this exposure would prove to have a profound effect upon his own Impressionist painting style. He served in the US Army as an aerial photographer, during World War I. In 1920, Alson and his wife relocated to Pasadena, California. 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.

Alson Skinner Clark
(1876-1949)
California Landscape with Cottage
Estimated age, mid 1940
Signed Lower Right
Painting is seated in vintage frame; which is not original frame, however suits painting, very well.
All original. Excellent condition.
Oil on Canvas, Laid onto Board
Painting measures approximately 10"W X 8"H, plus frame
Signature is a bit difficult to read, therefore listed in the manner of/ attribution to California Impressionist artist, Alson Skinner Clark.

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