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An example of work by Eleanor Arnold Clark
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Eleanor Arnold Clark was the twin sister of Bernita Arnold-Kayser. They
both studied at Parsons School of Design in New York, Carnegie
Institute of technology in Pittsburgh, and at the Art Student's League
in New York where they trained with Hans Hofmann.
Eleanor Arnold Clark was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began
her career as a painter of the American Scene, focusing upon rural
landscapes and portraits of friends and family. However, Clark did not
stick as tenaciously to the realist idiom after 1940. After studying
for a year (1935-36) at the Art Students' League in New York under the
celebrated abstractionist, Hans Hofmann, Clark began to move quite sharply
towards geometric abstraction and eventually adopted an Abstract
Expressionist idiom.
Unlike Hofmann, Clark never became purely non-
representational in her painting, as she continued to use the human figure (albeit
highly stylized) to express the range of human emotions and
interpersonal motivations, which lie at the crux of her art.
Source: Ewolfs Auction House, June 2005
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