Subseries A. Portraits and family travels | Collections | The Huntington

Subseries A. Portraits and family travels | Collections | The Huntington

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Subseries B. Studio home
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This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Series I. Alson Clark and Family, Studio, and Projects
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This series contains portraits of Alson Clark, Medora Clark, and others; scenes from family travels chiefly in Europe, California and the Southwestern United States, and New York; depictions of Clark's home studio in Pasadena, California; and various projects, chiefly murals.
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Subseries A. California
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Photographs include landscape views of the Colorado Desert, Palm Springs, Owens Valley, Sespe, La Jolla, Beaumont, and other locations, as well as wildflowers, people on horses, and onion harvesters parked with vehicles (Folders 1-3); and depictions of journeys to Palm Springs, some showing Medora Clark and others at a dwelling in the desert (Folder 4); Panamint City (Folder 5); and La Jolla (Folder 6), including beach scenes.
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Subseries C. Various projects
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Includes one photograph album containing 16 photographs taken by Harold Tyler from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, chiefly of buildings and also one photograph of a curtain painted by Clark; exterior and interior views of the Pasadena Playhouse, including depictions of portions of Clark's mural; images of Clark's models, including an album with five photographs of Medora Clark; and depictions of murals in the Polytechnic Elementary School and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena, with panels showing scenes from the cinema and shipping industries.
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Various people
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This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Alson Clark, Medora Clark, Alson Clark, Jr., and friends
Visual Materials
This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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