
Art Institute of Chicago
Blacklash
Ed Clark · 1964
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by the artist to Alice K. Lewis, Chicago, in the mid 1960s [this and the following, email from Michael McGinnis, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, Jan. 25, 2020; copy in object file]; by descent to Amanda E. Hopkins, Chicago, c. 1990; by descent to her husband Roy B. Sutton, Chicago, 2000; by descent to his stepson Carson P. Phillips, Albuquerque, 2015; sold to Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, 2015; sold to private collection, New York, 2016; sold Mnuchin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Ed Clark: A Survey, Sept. 14–Oct. 20, 2018, no cat. no.
- Margate, England, Turner Contemporary, Ed Clark, May 25, 2024-Sept. 1, 2024, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Sukanya Rajaratnam, Ed Clark: A Survey, exh. cat. (Mnuchin Gallery, 2018), pp. 26, 27 (color ill.).
- Roberta Smith, “Art Review: The Paint Remains the Point,” The New York Times, Sept. 28, 2018, p. C15.
- Roberta Smith, “Ed Clark, Pioneering Abstract Painter, Dies at 93,” The New York Times, Oct. 21, 2019, p. A26d.
- Michaela Unterdörfer, Jake Brodsky, Michel Conil-Lacoste, Shani Tzoref, Anita Feldman, Barbara Cavaliere, George R N'Namdi, et al., Ed Clark the Big Sweep: Chronicles of a Life 1926-2019 (London: Hauser & Wirth, 2023), 72, 78-79 (color ill.).
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