Artist     John Cosmo Clark
Title      On the Beach, Dieppe
Date      1950's
object   Painting
Media   oil
Size      35.5 x 45.5cm
Ref         73

Purchased in the 100th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1952

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On the Beach, Dieppe
John Cosmo Clark was a Londoner born in 1897. He began his studies at the Goldsmith's College School of Art from 1912-14 and again after war service from 1918-19 )from which he later published his war correspondence from the First World War) at Le Academie Julian in Paris, and finally at the Royal Academy between 1919-21, impressing enough to win a coveted Travelling Scholarship.

Cosmo Clark was the Director of the Rural Industries Bureau from 1942 to 1963 and was elected RA in the winter of 1958. He exhibited widely, including at the RA, NEAC, Leicester Galleries, RI and ROI as well as throughout Europe, Canada and the USA where his works are held in many collections, both private and public.

In the UK, The Government Art Collection, Huddersfield Art Gallery and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield have several examples of his work. John Cosmo Clark died in 1967.

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