Oil on thick cardstock, 1954. 405x305 mm; 16x12 inches. Signed in oil, lower center.
Provenance: the artist, with his Talladega College typed label on the verso, indicating the title and "painted summer '54;" private New York collection.
Claude Clark was an innovative painter and printmaker who returned to his native Alabama to give an art workshop at Talladega College in 1949. He stayed and eventually created the art department at the school, where he taught until 1955. Messinger p. 48.
