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> Photographic Galleries > Central Park, NYC in the 1930's as captured by H.H. Clark > H.H. Clark Brief Biography of The Artist
H.H. Clark Brief Biography of The Artist H.H. Clark was a Renaissance man from his teens to his last year, at age 96, in 1983. He painted creditable landscapes, wrote songs & poems, played any instrument by ear, and was an avid photographer.
Before he was 21, he spent 2 years living with his old, gold miner uncle in a basic cabin in Alaska . 1906 Alaska offered a rough life, especially for a youth raised in a protected Philadelphia home with the influence of a cultured, artist mother. But, young Mr. Clark adapted. He became a wireless operator, painted the telegraph tower itself, and did all the "odd jobs" including making deliveries with his own dog sled team.
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Alaska 1906 He hand-colored his photographs of Alaska, and showed them during his lectures on Alaska upon his return to "civilization".
In 1915 he became Managing and Booking Agent for the Fisk Jubilee Singers which toured across the U.S. which he did for the next 7 years.
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The Bronx Zoo 1939 For 50 years, he pursued his self-taught profession of the restoration of paintings before it became a scientific process taught in graduate school. His work was recognized, and he was recommended to private collectors by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But his pleasure in amateur photography continued. He shot with a Roleiflex when he visited The Bronx Zoo, on his walks through Central Park, and on trips to The World's Fair of 1929 and to Atlantic City.
He constructed his own photographic enlarger which enabled him to, develop and assemble a collection of his best animal portraitures which were exhibited at The Heads and Horns Gallery of The Bronx Zoo in the early 1940's and was held over for 5 months.
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