Timothy J. Clark is known for his expressive, monumental watercolors.
Clarks’ watercolors, oils and drawings are in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the permanent collections at the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the City Museum of New York, Ohio’s Butler Museum of American Art, andthe Langson Museum of Art at the University of California Irvine.
As the featured artist in American Travelers, an extensive exhibition of watercolors at the Hispanic Society Museum in New York City in 2022, Clark’s paintings hung with those of Childe Hassam, El Greco and Valasquez. The major review of the exhibition in El Pais, the largest newspaper in Spain, said that “Clark’s work breathes sunlight”.
Portraits of friends primarily in the arts were featured in Clark’s solo exhibition at the Howard University Art Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2022. Three of these portraits were acquired by the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery.
The National Academy of Design Museum, the oldest arts organization in New York City, honored Clark’s painting, The Maine Woodworking Shop of Raymond C. Small, as the finest watercolor by a living American painter in their 175th Annual Exhibition.
His virtuosity in drawing led Clark to be a guest lecturer at Yale University’s graduate school of architecture for eight years.
“I paint with enough modernism to unsettle the unadventurous, yet keep enough of the figurative to perplex the avant-garde. My audience has always been those who appreciate the long continuum of art and take the time to savor.”
Timothy J. Clark
Clark has had solo exhibitions in museums across the country, including at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, the Laguna Art Museum in Southern California, the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum in Arkansas.