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THBRoland H. Clark (1874-1957) Break of Day - Pintails
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Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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LiveJul 27, 2017 - Jul 28, 2017
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Roland H. Clark (1874-1957) Break of Day - Pintails, 1935
signed and dated "Roland Clark 1935" lower left
oil on canvas, 28 by 36 in.
Roland Clark was known as a premier waterfowl painter. He was born in New Rochelle, New York, and studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. After living in the Tidewater region of Virginia for several years, where he was able to enjoy hunting and other outdoor pursuits, Clark returned to New York City and devoted himself to painting and illustrating full-time. Beginning in 1937, the Derrydale Press reproduced two of Clark’s watercolors of wildfowl every year in limited edition prints. In addition to this, he submitted illustrations to “Ducks Unlimited,” a booklet which was published by the More Game Birds in America Foundation. In 1938 one of Clark’s images of pintail ducks was chosen as the fifth Federal Duck Stamp design. Clark’s devotion to and execution of waterfowl subjects places him amongst the elite depicting the genre.
This quintessential work by the artist depicts a flight of seven pintail ducks leaping from the marsh at dawn, with the sky in vivid shades of orange and blue. O'Brien befriended Clark at an early age and went on to become one of the artists top collectors. "Break of Day - Pintails" is considered one of Clark's true masterworks and is the pinnacle work by the artist from the O'Brien Collection.
Provenance: Donal C. O'Brien, Sr.
Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Collection Literature: Laurence Sheehan, "The Sporting Life," New York, NY, 1992, pp. 82-83, illustrated.Condition
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