This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A painter of landscapes in Tonalist and Impressionist styles, Clark
Voorhees was the first of the Connecticut Impressionists to discover
Old Lyme. In the spring of 1896, he was riding his bicycle and as
an artist discovered the area, which later became a famous artists'
colony whose members gathered at the boarding house run by Florence
Griswold.
He spent that summer there, and by 1904, had married
and moved permanently to Old Lyme. He also painted and exhibited
in Bermuda.
Voorhees was born in New York City, and studied
chemistry at Yale University and art at Columbia University. He
then went to Paris where he enrolled at the Academie Julian and studied
with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. Returning to the
United States, he was active in New York City, Boston, and as
mentioned, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Exhibition venues included the National Academy of Design where he was
awarded the Hallgarten Prize in 1905, the Boston Art Club, and the Lyme
Art Association.
Source:
Lisa Peters, American Art Review, August 1997
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art |
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Clark Voorhees is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Impressionists Pre 1940
Old Lyme Colony Painters
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