Stephen Carlton Clark (August 29, 1882 – September 17, 1960) was an American art collector, businessman, newspaper publisher and philanthropist. He founded the

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Biography

Clark was the youngest of the four sons of

Alfred Corning Clark Alfred Corning Clark I (November 14, 1844 – April 8, 1896) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts. Early life He was the son of Edward Cabot Clark (1811–1882) and Caroline ( née Jordan) Clark (1815–1874). His fath ...

and Elizabeth Scriven. His grandfather, Edward Cabot Clark, had been Isaac Singer's lawyer and partner in the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Alfred Corning Clark inherited a 37.5% stake in the company, and invested the profits in New York City real estate. Alfred died in April 1896, leaving a $30,000,000 family trust to his widow and sons. Clark was educated at

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(Andover),

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( B.A. 1903) and Columbia Law School (1907). Following his graduation from law school, Clark became a director of the Singer Manufacturing Company. He and his brother

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built the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown in 1909. That same year, he was elected to the

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as a Republican from Otsego County (

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). Clark served in the U.S. Army during

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, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was awarded the

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."Stephen C. Clark, Art Patron, Dead," (PDF)
''The New York Times'', September 18, 1960. In the 1920s, he was the owner and publisher of three

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newspapers, including the ''Albany Evening Journal'' (purchased from

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Philanthropy

Clark established cultural institutions in his home town of Cooperstown. He founded the

and paid for construction of its building, which opened in 1939. He offered his late brother Edward's country estate to the

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, which moved its headquarters to Cooperstown in 1939.Fenimore Art Museum (no date)
"Stephen C. Clark Sr. – Founder of the Fenimore Art Museum and the Farmers' Museum," (PDF)
The estate's mansion houses the Fenimore Art Museum, whose collection of American paintings and folk art Clark greatly expanded in the 1940s and 1950s. He founded the Farmers' Museum in 1942, which features a large collection of farm tools and equipment housed in Edward's former dairy barn. Its attractions include a village of relocated 19th-century buildings staffed by interpreters in vintage costume, including a blacksmith's

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and a working

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. The museums are across

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from each other, on land once owned by

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. Clark's brother Edward founded Cooperstown's

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in 1918. Named for a local physician, Edward paid for construction of its 100-bed building. The hospital housed wounded World War I veterans for several years, before opening to the public on June 1, 1922. The largest cash bequest made by Stephen C. Clark in his will was to Bassett Hospital: $6,000,000. Clark was a trustee of the

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from 1932 to 1945, and from 1950 to his death in 1960. He served as the Met's vice president from 1941 to 1945."Masterpieces from Stephen C. Clark Bequest Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,"
Metropolitan Museum of Art press release, October 13, 1961. He was a founding trustee of the

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in 1929, and served as chairman of its board of trustees from 1939 to 1946. His chairmanship is remembered primarily for his unpopular 1943 firing of MoMA's founding director,

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Debby Applegate
"Outrageous Fortune,"
''The New York Times'', May 20, 2007. He also served on the board of

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, and on numerous corporate boards.

Personal life

Clark was age 13 when his father died. After six years as a widow, his mother married Bishop

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(1834–1908), of the

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, on October 4, 1902. On February 20, 1909, Clark married Susan Vanderpoel Hun (1889–1967), the daughter of an Albany lawyer and a family friend since childhood. Clark and his bride were honeymooning in Europe when his mother died on March 4, 1909. Stephen and Susan Clark were the parents of five children: * Elizabeth Clark Labouisse (1909–1945) * Stephen Carlton Clark Jr. (1911–1992) * Peter Gansevoort Clark (1915–1915), died in infancy. * Alfred Corning Clark II (1916–1961) * Robert Vanderpoel Clark (1917–1952). Explorers Club Headquarters

Clark hired architect

Frederick Sterner Frederick Sterner (1862–1931) was a British-born American architect, who designed large residential and commercial buildings in Colorado and New York City. Many of his structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Early life ...

to design a 5-story

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city house at 46 East 70th Street,

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. The residence was completed in 1912, and used by Clark and his family until his death. Since 1964, the building has housed The Explorers Club. In 1923 Clark and his brother Sterling entered into a famous feud that lasted until their deaths. The terms of their father's trust limited the beneficiaries to the four brothers and their issue. Sterling, who was childless and had married his long-term French mistress in 1919, sought to change the terms of the trust to make her a beneficiary. Clark, the only one of the brothers who had fathered children, refused to agree to the change. Sterling withdrew his quarter of the trust's assets, sold his properties in Cooperstown, and never spoke to Clark again.Nicholas Fox Weber. ''The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud''. Alfred A. Knopf, (May 8, 2007). Stephen C. Clark died on September 17, 1960, in New York City. His children became beneficiaries of the family trust upon his death. Upon the 1964 death of the last surviving brother, F. Ambrose Clark, Stephen's children became the sole beneficiaries of the trust.

Legacy

Yale University awarded Clark an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1957. Clark established The Clark Foundation in 1931, to support Bassett Hospital and other Cooperstown charitable institutions. The foundation currently funds local museums, libraries, community organizations and village services, supports the summer

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, and provides college scholarships for area students. It also operates the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, a vast athletic facility that is also used by the Baseball Hall of Fame for its annual induction ceremonies. In New York City, it supports education, community organizations and cultural institutions. As of 2013, The Clark Foundation's assets were in excess of $600,000,000.Richard Sandomir
"Cooperstown’s Steadiest Hand Isn’t a Hall of Famer’s,"
''The New York Times'', July 24, 2015. The International House of New York's Stephen C. Clark Fund, established in 1960 by a bequest from his estate, funds scholarships and stipends for foreign students. Clark served as chairman of the board of directors of the Baseball Hall of Fame, as did his son Stephen C. Clark Jr., Jane Forbes Clark II (daughter of Stephen C. Clark Jr. and Jane Forbes Clark, née Wilbur) has served on the board since 1992, and been its chairman since 2000. File:Hotel Otesaga, Cooperstown, New York. LOC gsc.5a23719.tif, Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown, New York File:Baseball Hall of Fame 2009.jpg,

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, Cooperstown, New York File:Fenimore Art Museum Cooperstown.jpg, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York File:Farmers Museum entrance.jpg, Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown, New York File:Otsego County Bank Building 19 Main Street Cooperstown.jpg, The Clark Estates offices, Cooperstown, New York File:Mariano Rivera fan waves Panamanian flag at Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony July 2019.jpg, 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, outside Clark Sports Center

Art collection

Stephen C. Clark was an avid art collector, with voluminous holdings ranging from Old Masters,

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and Early Modernists to American colonial portraits, Hudson River School works, American genre paintings and American folk art. As a young man, he helped to organize the 1913 Armory Show, and purchased the most expensive sculpture in the exhibition: Wilhelm Lehmbruck's ''Standing Woman'' (later donated to MoMA). He acquired 13 works by

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by the early 1930s, which he exhibited in the "Matisse Room" of his city house. He sold or gave away the Matisses prior to his death. Stephen C. Clark assembled a choice collection of works by American painter Thomas Eakins, some purchased from the artist's widow, which he bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the

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in Washington, D.C. The 40 paintings he left to Yale also included works by

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Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inclu ...

, Manet, Winslow Homer and

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. His bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art included paintings by Renoir, Degas,

Seurat Georges Pierre Seurat ( , , ; 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as Divisionism, chromoluminarism and pointillism and used Conté, conté crayon for drawings on pa ...

and Cezanne, along with a $500,000 cash bequest to install air-conditioning and

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s in its

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building. Stephen C. Clark's brothers Sterling and

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also were art collectors—Sterling owned 39 Renoirs and founded the

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, commonly referred to as the Clark, is an art museum and research institution located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Its collection consists of European and American paintings, sculp ...

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; "Brose" collected equestrian art—but the family feud ended the possibility of consolidating all three collections in a single museum at Cooperstown. In 2006, the Clark Art Institute mounted an exhibition that provided a glimpse of what might have been. ''The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings'' featured masterpieces from Sterling's collection hanging alongside masterpieces once owned by Stephen C. Clark. The exhibition traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007. Stephen C. Clark bought

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's ''St. James the Greater'' (1661) about 1954, and his family loaned it to a series of museums after his death. In 2007, in the possession of The Clark Estates Inc. (overseen by granddaughter Jane Forbes Clark II), it was auctioned at Sotheby's New York for $25,800,000.

Lawsuits

In May, 2009, a lawsuit was filed against Yale University regarding Vincent van Gogh's '' The Night Café'' (1888). Pierre Konowaloff, heir to the estate of his great-grandfather Ivan Morozov, alleged in the suit that the painting had been illegally taken by the Soviet government in 1920. Clark acquired it in 1933, and bequeathed it to Yale in 1960. Konowaloff's suit argued that Yale should have questioned the propriety of Clark's purchase (76 years earlier), and that the court could not deem the university to be the painting's rightful owner. "Stephen C. Clark either had actual knowledge, or reasonably should have known, that Russia had no legal title to the painting when he sought to acquire it in 1933." Konowaloff filed a similar lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, seeking the return of

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...

's 1891 portrait of his wife—a 1960 bequest by Clark to the Met. In September, 2011 the U.S. District Court in Manhattan granted the Met's motion to dismiss the suit: "The Court found that Mr. Konowaloff’s claim would require it to question the validity of the Soviet Union’s taking Cézanne’s portrait of his wife as part of its nationalization of private property after the Russian Revolution, which the Court, under longstanding precedent of the 'act of state' doctrine, refused to do. Under that doctrine, the acts of a sovereign government are legitimate, official acts." File:Saint andrew.jpg, ''Saint Andrew'' (1610) by Workshop of

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. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:De Heer Bodolphe by Frans Hals.jpeg, ''Portrait of de Heer Bodolphe'' (1643) by

. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Mevrouw Bodolphe by Frans Hals 1643.jpeg, '' Portrait of Mevrouw Bodolphe'' (1643) by Frans Hals. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Rembrandt - Sankt Jakobus der Ältere.jpg, ''St. James the Greater'' (1661) by

. Private collection. File:Mrs. Anna Dummer Powell.jpg, ''Mrs. Anna Drummer Powell'' (1764) by

John Singleton Copley John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. Afte ...

. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Gilbert Stuart Williamstown Portrait of George Washington.jpg, ''George Washington'' (1797) by

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. Clark Art Institute. File:William Sidney Mount 001.jpg, ''Eel Spearing at Setauket'' (1845) by William Sidney Mount. 1942 gift to the Fenimore Art Museum. File:Degas self-portrait c1855.png, ''Self-Portrait'' (c. 1855–1856) by Degas. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:MJ Heade Rhode Island Landscape, 1859.jpg, ''Rhode Island Landscape'' (1859) by Martin Johnson Heade. Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume by Édouard Manet.jpeg, ''Young Woman Reclining in a Spanish Costume'' (1862–63) by Manet. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:A Game of Croquet by Winslow Homer 1866.jpeg, ''A Game of Croquet'' (1866) by Winslow Homer. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Winslow Homer - The Dinner Horn.jpg, ''The Dinner Horn'' (1873) by Winslow Homer. Detroit Institute of Arts. File:A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant.jpg, ''A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant'' (c. 1875) by Renoir. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Elizabeth at Piano - 1875.jpg, ''Elizabeth at the Piano'' (1875) by Thomas Eakins. Bequest to the Addison Gallery of American Art. File:Renoir Marguerite-Thérèse (Margot) Berard.jpg, ''Portrait of Marguerite-Thérèse Berard'' (1879) by Renoir. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Degas - Die grüne Sängerin.jpg, ''The Singer in Green'' (1884) by Degas. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art File:Georges Seurat 066.jpg, '' Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)'' (1887–88) by Georges Seurat. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Van Gogh The Night Cafe.jpg, '' The Night Café'' (1888) by

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...

. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Thomas Eakins Cowboys in the Badlands.jpg, ''Cowboys in the Badlands'' (1888) by Thomas Eakins. Sold by Clark through Macbeth Gallery. File:The Forest of Arden.jpg, ''The Forest of Arden'' (c. 1888–1897) by

Albert Pinkham Ryder Albert Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of ...

. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Dr agnew.jpg, ''Portrait of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew'' (c. 1889) by Thomas Eakins. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Cezanne The Card Players Metmuseum.jpg, ''The Card Players'' (1890–92) by Cézanne. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Madame Cézanne au conservatoire, par Paul Cézanne.jpg, ''Portrait of Madame Cézanne'' (1891) by Cézanne. Bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. File:Winslow Homer - Hound and Hunter.jpg, ''Hound and Hunter'' (1892) by Winslow Homer. 1947 gift to the National Gallery of Art. File:Maud Cook by Thomas Eakins 1895.jpeg, ''Portrait of Maud Cook'' (1895) by Thomas Eakins. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery. File:Henry Augustus Rowland.jpg, ''Portrait of Henry Augustus Rowland'' (1897) by Thomas Eakins. Bequest to the Addison Gallery of American Art. File:Salutat.jpg, ''Salutat'' (1898) by Thomas Eakins. Bequest to the Addison Gallery of American Art. File:Thomas Eakins - Archbishop Diomede Falconio.jpg, ''Archbishop Diomede Falconio'' (1905) by Thomas Eakins. 1946 gift to the National Gallery of Art. File:Wilhelm Lembruck - Junges Weib.jpg, ''Standing Woman'' (1910) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Gift to the Museum of Modern Art. File:George Bellows - Katherine Rosen (1921).jpg, ''Katherine Rosen'' (1921) by

. Bequest to Yale University Art Gallery.

References

* Michael Conforti et al., ''The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings'', exhibition catalogue (Williamstown, MA.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2006)

External links

''New York Times'' obituary, September 18, 1960
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