Irene V. Clark (1927-1984) was an American painter. She was born in 1927 in Washington, D.C. She studied at the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a Private university, private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which gr ...

. While in Chicago she also studied screen printing with William McBride and John F. Miller. She was influenced by the work of the WPA artists. For a time Clark was the gallery director of the Exhibit Gallery and Studio. She relocated to California and exhibited her paintings at the

Oakland Museum of California Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

and other galleries in California. Several sources identify her year of death as 1984 but the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in ...

has her death date as 1980. Clark's work is in the collection of the Oakland Museum, Clark Atlanta University, and the National Gallery of Art.

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images of Clark's work
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