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Lot 7038
C. Myron Clark (American, 1858-1925), USS Constitution
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, presented in an attractive gilt frame with gallery plaque.

Stretcher size 20 x 28 in.; Frame dimensions 26 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Charles Myron Clark was born in New York but spent much of his life in Massachusetts. At the time of his marriage, in 1891, he was head clerk of the Melville Gardens in Hingham, Massachusetts. In the 1900 census, his occupation is listed as "Artist."

Clark is best known as a marine painter, with several of his paintings in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

Faint stretcher marks; minor rubbing to frame; chip to frame at upper right corner.