Oil on masonite board, 1944. 229x305 mm; 9x12 inches. Titled, dated, inscribed "9x12" in ink on the artist's label, verso.
Provenance: the artist, Oakland, CA; the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia..
After winning a 4 year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art., Claude Clark was supported by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who gave him access to his famous collection at the Barnes Foundation from 1939-1944. In 1944 his painting Cutting Pattern was the second work by an African American artist accepted into the Barnes Foundation, after one by Horace Pippin. Clark also was a colleague of Dox Thrash and Raymond Steth in the Philadelphia Fine Print Worskhop and the WPA workshop from 1939-1942, where he helped develop carborundum etching.
