Biography from Charleston Renaissance Gallery:
| A native Charlestonian, Chevis Clark paints his coast land home with both affection and feeling. After serving in the Navy, he completed his art training at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Returning to Charleston, he continued to expand the range of his artistic talents and began teaching at the Gibbes Art Gallery School.
In 1969, he was selected for the Navy Combat Art Program under whose auspices he completed Replenishment at Sea, which is now part of the Navy Combat Art Collection in Washington, D.C.
His works are represented in many private and public collections and he was won many awards including first, second and third prize awards in the Carolina Art Association and the Guild of South Carolina Artists state exhibitions. RS
From the exhibition catalogue, The Bicentennial: An Interpretative Approach, South Carolina National, 1976.
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Biography from Carolina Galleries - Southern Art:
| Chevis Clark was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1922. A 1950 graduate of the High Museum of Art school in Atlanta, Georgia, Chevis was a designer and illustrator for the US Navy. He participated in the Navy Combat Art Program and in 1971 they reproduced one of the paintings in their collection, "Replenishment at Sea".
He is in the collections of the Anderson County (SC) Museum, Beaufort (SC) Art Museum, Charleston Museum, College of Charleston, Florence County (SC) Museum, Francis Marion College, Gibbes Museum of Art, Navy Combat Art Collection, State Art Collection (SC), Wachovia Bank, and Yorktown (NY) Association.
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