Huguette Marcelle Clark was a collector art and musical instruments. The art collection included work by, among others, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Monet and Renoir.
Huguette was the youngest daughter of the collector and mining magnate William Andrews Clark (1839-1925). She was married to Mr. William MacDonald Gower (son of a business associate of her father’s) and divorced 9 month later.
At the time of her death Clark owned a 42-room apartment on Fifth Avenue, an oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara and a country manor in New Canaan, CT.
