Walter Leighton Clark
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| Walter Leighton Clark | |
| Born | January 9, 1859 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Died | December 18, 1935 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Businessman, artist and inventor |
| Children | Walter Leighton Clark, Jr., Bertha Vaughan Dunn (Clark) |
Walter Leighton Clark, (1859-1935), was an American businessman, inventor, and artist based in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and New York City. Among other achievements, in 1923 he founded with John Singer Sargent the Grand Central Art Galleries, located within New York City's Grand Central Station, to offer notable American artists the opportunity to exhibit their work in the United States without having to send it abroad.
Autobiography
His autobiography, "Leaves From an Artist's Memory," was published posthumously in 1937. Essentially an account of his boyhood adventures and then rise from a machine-shop apprentice to industrialist and world traveler, Clark detailed his friendships with Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Wilson Drake, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Edison, Dame Ellen Terry, George Westinghouse, Julius Rosenwald, James A. Farrell, George Pullman, and many more. He studied sculpture with Daniel Chester French.
Links
The most recent sale of his work was The Pooch [1] sold by Christie's in New York in June of 2007
Time Magazine Article [2]
