Alson S. Clark
Alson S. Clark
Biographical Information
Alson S. Clark [1876-1949]is remembered for his impressionist landscape paintings. His art education included his training at Chicago Art Institute, the Art Students League in New York, and in the atalier of William Meritt Chase. He spent much of his early career working in Paris, France. He served in the US Army as an aereal photographer during World War I.
In 1920 he and his wife relocated to Pasadena, California. He taught fine art at Occidental College, and was director of the Stickney Memorial School of Art in Pasadena.
His memberships in arts organizations included the Pasadena Society of Artists and the California Art Club.
Public Art of Alson Clark
In addition to landscape paintins, Alson Clark painted murals for the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, and the curtain of the Pasadena Playhouse. A group of murals completed in 1929 can still be seen at the former 1st Trust & Savings Bank at 587 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. The murals consist of 4 panels standing approximately ten feet in height, each depicting a major southern California industry: oil drilling, citrus farming, the movies, and shipping.