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Selected Pictures


Alson Skinner Clark
1876-1949

Coffee House, inscribed 1906

The large scale work by Clark is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibited there at the Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture where it won the Martin B. Cahn Prize.
This work, 20" x 15" was owned by Clark throughout his life.

Literature:
Alan Artner, “Art,” Chicago Tribune, 12/2/1979

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Image below courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago