CLAUDE CLARK (1915 - 2001) Adit (Mine Shaft) (Perpetual Motion).
Oil on cotton canvas, 1961. 914x813 mm; 36x32 inches. Signed in oil, lower right. Signed and titled Adit (Mine Shaft) (Perpetual Motion) in ink, verso and on the stretcher bar.
Provenance: the estate of the artist, with the artist's hand inscribed label and his Oakland, CA typed address on the verso; thence by descent, private collection.
An adit or stulm is a horizontal or nearly horizontal passage to an underground mine.
From 1961-63, Claude Clark painted a striking series of Abstract Expressionist paintings while studying painting at the the University of California at Berkeley. Clark obtained his Masters of Arts degree from Berkeley in 1962.
