Walter Leighton Clark

Walter Leighton Clark

Infobox Person
birth_date = January 9, 1859
birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
death_date = December 18, 1935
death_place = 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.

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The most recent sale of his work was The Pooch [ [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=6D0058608A03B1CAC1B6F9D6CBF82BFB Walter Leighton Clark - Past Auction Results ] at www.artnet.com] sold by Christie's in New York in June 2007

Time Magazine Article [cite news
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title=What They Liked
date=1928-09-24
work=Time Magazine
url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,928076-2,00.html
accessdate=2008-08-09]

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