James Lippitt Clark (American, 1883 to 1957)
James Lippitt Clark studied at the Rhode Island School of design and worked as a designer for the Gorham Company, which later cast a number of his bronzes. It was his life-long career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York that had the greatest effect on his work as a sculptor. There, he worked with Carl Akeley, the explorer and conservationist who hunted with Teddy Roosevelt and was best known for his revolutionary naturalistic work in museum dioramas. The knowledge Clark gained from his time with Akeley, from his mounting of museum specimens and from his own experiences as an explorer and hunter in the early 1900′s, made him a fine artist of animals. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society and exhibited with the National Academy of Design.
Information courtesy of Rago Arts, May 2007.