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.
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