The Art of George C. Clark

 

George C. Clark created this pulp-style black-and-white drawing as poster/announcement art for the first showings of his Vietnam War exhibition A Year in the Tropics at Evanston Art Center and the State of Illinois Building (since renamed the Thompson Center) in 1987.  He made a silkscreen print of this drawing on archival watercolor board which he hand-colored.  The color version of this art, titled Phantoms in Close Support, was shown in the early exhibitions and now is in the United States Air Force Art Collection.

After his discharge from the Army in 1969, Clark worked in graphic design before his first one-person gallery show in 1978.  Since then his landscapes, figure paintings and graphics have been exhibited at many Midwestern museums and galleries and have been awarded prizes by the Art Institute of Chicago, Evanston Art Center, the Artists Guild of Chicago, the Municipal Art League, Rockford College, Beverly Art Center, the Lexington (Kentucky) Art League, and the Rockford Art Museum.

Work by Clark is represented in the collections of the United States Air Force, the Kinsey Institute, the National Veterans Art Museum, the John H. Vanderpoel Art Museum, the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, KPMG Corporate Headquarters in Chicago, the Quaker Oats Company in Chicago, McDonald’s Corporation in Oak Brook, Illinois, Sandoz/Novartis AG of Switzerland, Chicago State University Business School Hall of Fame and many other corporate, institutional and private collections located mostly in the Midwest but also in California, Texas, New York, Israel, Japan and England.  You can see Clark’s paintings and graphics online at www.georgecclark.com and at travelerssketchbook.blogspot.com.  You can see his Vietnam War art online at ayearinthetropics.blogspot.com.