111. Eleanor Arnold Clark (American, 20th Century)

"Adam and Eve".
Oil and mixed media on canvas, signed lower right and upper left, framed.
46" x 30".

1,000/2,000     SOLD: $230.00

Eleanor Arnold Clark, like painter Molly Luce who is also well represented in the present auction, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also began her career as a painter of the American Scene, focussing upon rural landscapes and portraits of friends and family. However, Clark did not stick as tenaciously to the realist idiom after 1940. After studying for a year (1935-36) at the Art Students' League in New York under the celebrated abstractionist, Hans Hofmann, Clark began to move quite sharply towards geometric abstraction and eventually adopted an Abstract Expressionist idiom. Unlike Hofmann, Clark never became purely non-representational for she continued to use the human figure (albeit highly stylized) to express the range of human emotions and interpersonal motivations which lie at the crux of her art.

Condition: very good with minor crazing to thicker pigment layer.