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Clark, Stephen Carlton, 1882-1960

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dates 1882-1960
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesCooperstown, NY; New Haven, CT;
sex M
historical notes Art collector, lawyer, publisher, businessman, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune, he was the grandson of Edward Clark, the business partner of Isaac Singer.

Clarks collection included work by Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, El Greco, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat.

Some of the paintings were given to Yale University, Clark’s alma mater; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., but most ended up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, on whose boards Clark served.

decades
of activity
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1960-1970
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Archives: Department of European Paintings see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Papers, 1927-1984 see details...
The Museum of Modern Art
Library and Archives
Collectors Records, 1929-1987 see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Martin Birnbaum papers, 1862-1970. see details...
Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200
Oral history interview of Margaret Scolari Barr concerning Alfred H. Barr, 1974 Feb. 22 - May 13. see details...
The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971 see details...

see also:
Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956