Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925 |
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1839-1925 |
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Connellsville, PA; Central City, CO; Mount Pleasant, IA; Butte, MT; |
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William Andrews Clark was a collector, banker, railroad man, copper-mine owner, businessman, served as U.S. Senator from Montana from 1899 to 1900 and again from 1901-1907.
Clark was married twice, his first wife was Kate L Stauffer, was from his hometown and his second, Anna Evangeline La Chapelle was a daughter of a Montana physician.
R Knoedler assisted Clark with many of his purchases.
In 1925, Clark bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art a collection of European and American art. More than two-thirds of the 158 European paintings in the Clark Collection are French.
Senator Clark spent part of each year in France from the late 1870s until the beginning of World War I.
Clark donated more than 800 objects to the Corcoran. His gift included work by Canova, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Corot, Rosseu, Degas, Cazins, Fraganard, Beauvais tapestry and Italian Majolica - sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Clark lent the following to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909:
Village in the Dunes - Aelbert Cuyp
View of Rhenen - Jan van Goyen
View of Dordrecht - Jan van Goyen
Woods - Jacob can Ruisdael
Frozen Canal - Philip Wouwerman
Portrait of a Young Man - Gerard Terborch
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decades
of activity | 1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
Montana Historical Society Research Center
225 North Roberts Street |
William Andrews Clark papers, 1867-1922 (SC 536) |
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies |
Collection of papers related to Montana, 1833-1934 |
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Montana Historical Society Research Center
225 North Roberts Street |
William Clark, Jr. Papers 1931-1936 (SC 2328) |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Paul Wayland Bartlett papers, 1887-1925. |
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University of Virginia Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |
Barringer Family Papers ca. 1812-1966 |
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University of Virginia Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library |
Papers of William Alexander Lambeth, 1915, 1923-1928, Accession #3380-f |
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Frick Art Research Library and Brooklyn Museum
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Exhibition of paintings from the collection of Honorable William A. Clark [electronic resource] : comprising some of the best examples of the four great masters, Rousseau, Corot, Cazin, Monticelli. |
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Frick Art Research Library and Brooklyn Museum
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Paintings from the collection of Senator W.A. Clark [electronic resource]. |
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