| Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 | |||||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | ||||||||||||
| dates | 1877-1956 | ||||||||||||
| city | Williamstown | ||||||||||||
| state | MA | ||||||||||||
| other cities | Cooperstown, NY; New York, NY; Paris, France; Hong Kong, China; | ||||||||||||
| sex | M | ||||||||||||
| history |
Art collector, traveler, and racehorse breeder. An heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune, he was the grandson of Edward Clark, the business partner of Isaac Singer. Robert studied at Yale, served in the army until 1905, and led a scientific expedition to China (1908–9). In 1911 he settled in Paris as an art collector, in 1919 marrying Francine Clary (1876–1960), born in France; little is known of her early life. The Clarks moved to New York City in 1949, settling in Williamstown, MA, where they built up a collection of Old Master and 19th-c American paintings. In 1955 they established the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, and both are buried beneath the front steps of the original marble building. Clark's collection included French Impressionist masterpieces, including thirty-eight Renoirs, and works by such American artists as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Frederic Remington, and Mary Cassatt. |
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| decades | 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:29 | ||||||||||||
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