The following information was submitted by the artist's nephew, John Dalles:

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – February 2, 1919; died October 1979, in New York.  

Allan Hugh Clarke was raised in New Kensington, Pennsylvania and received his B F A from Carnegie Tech in 1947.  He married a classmate and fellow B F A Carnegie Tech graduate, Grace Dalles.  They have one son.  Clarke taught at the University of New Hampshire on the fine arts faculty when George Thomas was head of the art department there.  Thereafter until the time of his death, he resided in Manhattan. 

Clarke had a one-man show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan shortly after it opened, in the early 1950s.  He specialized in mid-century modern art, which might be described as cubistic or abstract expressionism.  He is known for a series of dramatic paintings of horses, a series of abstract paintings of record players, and for his abstract landscapes.  Clarke made all of his own frames for his paintings—he worked in both oils and watercolors.