Masters of Their Craft

Artists

Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.

39,743 artists in the collection

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Clarke, Hugh

American

American, active c. 1935

Clarke, John

Clarke, John

British

British, active 1778/1790

John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949), also known as JCC and "The Bard of Salford", is an English performance poet and comedian who was often referred to as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands and has continued to write and perform since. The title of his first poetry anthology, Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt, published in 1982, was also used for a documentary film about him in the same year. Clarke has been influence on many later artists, including The Arctic Monkeys. In 2013, he was presented with an honorary doctorate by the University of Salford. As of 2025 he has released three anthologies of poetry and a memoir, as well as many albums and singles, and continues to perform regularly.

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Clarke, John Clem

American

American, 1937 - 2021

John Clem Clarke (June 6, 1937 – June 5, 2021) was an American painter and graphic artist who was active in the SoHo art scene during the 1970s.

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Clarke, Mae A.

American

American, active c. 1935

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Clarke, Thomas

American

American, active c. 1800

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Clark Fay

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Clark Hobart

American

1868 - 1948

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Clark, Irene

American

American, 1927 - 1980

Irene V. Clark (1927-1984) was an American painter. She was born in 1927 in Washington, D.C. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago she also studied screen printing with William McBride and John F. Miller. She was influenced by the work of the WPA artists. For a time Clark was the gallery director of the Exhibit Gallery and Studio. She relocated to California and exhibited her paintings at the Oakland Museum of California and other galleries in California. Several sources identify her year of death as 1984 but the National Gallery of Art has her death date as 1980. Clark's work is in the collection of the Oakland Museum, Clark Atlanta University, and the National Gallery of Art.

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Clark, James

British

British, active 1710/1720

Clark, James

Clark, James

British

British, 1789 - 1860

Clark James Gable (September 20, 1988 – February 22, 2019), also known as Clark Gable III, was an American actor, model, and television presenter. Gable was a host of the television reality show Cheaters.

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Clark, Jennifer S.

American

American, born 1971

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Clark, June

American

American, born 1941