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Jean Clark (artist)

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147:, the second of two children born to Daniel William Wymer, a mechanical engineer, and Jean Renwick, née Cuthbert, whose father was the artist John Spreckley Cuthbert. Clark left Merton Court School in 1913, aged twelve, and enrolled in the Sidcup School of Art and studied there until 1919 when she spent a year at the 151:. At the Royal Academy school she met Cosmo Clark, a decorated Army captain who had returned to studying after serving in the trenches during World War I. The couple married in 1924 and then spent some time at the 155:
in Paris. The Clarks spent two years in New York during 1928 and 1929 where Jean did the commercial illustration work. Returning to London they established a home and studio at
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Clark created several notable murals during her career including a number of church commissions. She regularly exhibited her paintings, mostly watercolours, with the
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where she continued to paint and a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the Bankside Gallery in 1983. She died at
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and showed paintings of tennis scenes there in both 1950 and 1951. She was elected a member of the NEAC in 1952 and of the
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After her husband died in 1967, Clark moved from London to their former holiday home at
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where Cosmo worked as a camouflage officer and Jean did land work.
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in Kent in the 1930s. During World War II the Clarks were based in
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had a joint retrospective of her and her husband's work in 2002.
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led to Clark teaching at the small art school he was running at
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were among their neighbours. A chance meeting with the elderly
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Painted ceiling, Woodford Green United Free Church.
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Index

Sidcup
Kent
Saxtead
Suffolk
Royal Academy Schools
Academie Julian
Sidcup
Kent
Royal Academy Schools
Academie Julian
St Peter's Square
Hammersmith
Eric Kennington
Walter Sickert
Broadstairs
Leamington Spa
New English Art Club
Royal West of England Academy
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Academy
Royal Watercolour Society
Shottisham
Saxtead
Suffolk
Chappel
Weston-super-Mare
Cutlers' Hall
Carpenters' Hall
Bankers' Clearing House
City of London

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