Alling MacKaye (sometimes Mackaye) Clements

Parents: Willard W. Clements and Lois Alling Clements (Willard Clements worked for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Co.); grandmother Emily

Birth: Rochester, New York, June 7, 1891

Siblings: Grant W. Clements and Emily Alling Clements (m. Arthur Heath [d. May 25, 1978]), both younger than AMC

School: Rochester public schools; graduated from East High School, June 1908; 1908-1911 studied art at the Rochester Atheneum and Mechanics Institute (later Rochester Institute of Technology), graduating in 1911; 1912-1914 studied at Art Students League, New York City

Appeared in 1908 East High School Senior Class Play, "The Dictator," by Richard Harding Davis, as the "Smoking Room Steward"

1914-1917 free lance artist, theatrical scenery painter, sign painter, New York City

Sept. 1917-Dec. 1918 U.S. Navy stationed at Pelham Bay, NY (Sept. 1917-June 1918), and at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, June-Dec. 1918

1918-1921 unknown

1921-1956 faculty member at Mechanics Institute, Rochester; Director of Painting, 1923-?

Summer 1926 painting trip to France; ca. late 1920s-early 1930s summers at Woodstock and Ogunquit, Maine, where he studied with Charles Woodbury

Married: Jean Kendrick (1898-1990), June 20, 1934 Children: Lois, Nov. 13, 1935-Apr. 25, 1939; Kendrick Alling Clements, Feb. 7, 1939-

Member:
Rochester Art Club (president for 3 years)
Rochester Print Club (member of board of directors for 3 years)
Genesee Painting Group
Memorial Art Gallery
American Legion
Member, Rochester Museum of Arts & Sciences
Member, First Baptist Church
Association for Teen-Age Diplomats (vice-president)

Died: March 22, 1957, Rochester, New York

Source:
Compiled by Kendrick A. Clements