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Clark V. Fox (born Michael Vinson Clark, November 20, 1946) is an American modernist painter. Clark produced color field paintings while associated with the Washington Color School in the late sixties and simultaneously made figurative pop art.[1] Over the course of his career Clark consciously alternated between and synthesized these two schools while moving many times between Washington D.C. and New York City.[2] Clark's association with the Washington Color School is reflected in the fact that he was called upon, as a recent graduate of the Corcoran School of Art, to reproduce 50 copies of "Popsicle" by Gene Davis, a leading light of the school, for a highly publicized giveaway in 1969.[3] Clark is also known for his minimalist architecture paintings, which are held in numerous major museums and private collections, and for his pop representations of Gilbert Stuart’s iconic portrait of George Washington.[4] Beginning in the seventies, Clark used Mr. Peanut as a vehicle for ironically commenting on consumerist culture and brand-name icons, drawing on the analyses of the Situationist International.[5]

References

  1. ^ Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940-1990 by Jean Lawlor Cohen, Elizabeth Tebow and Sidney Lawrence – book published by the Washington Arts Museum with an corresponding exhibit June 3, 2013
  2. ^ History Lessons With Clark Fox" interview by David Jenison in Prohbtd.
  3. ^ "Free Art and a Planned Giveaway" by Joan Kee in Archives of American Art Journal (Spring 2018, pp. 44-61)
  4. ^ "Clark Fox: Icon Chains” – exhibition at Biggs Museum of American Art (Oct. 7, 2016 – January 2017)
  5. ^ "Exhibit of works by activist artists is subversive, thoughtful, hilarious," by Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 29, 2016
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