By Corinne Robins
"Ed Clark: The Fulfillment of a ‘Grand’ Talent", 1997
Edward Clark and Joan Mitchell
are probably the two most outstanding artists of the younger generation
of American expressionist artists which Irving Sandler in his book named
‘The New York School,’ after the city in which it flourished. Clark and
Mitchell's limited recognition until half way through the nineteen seventies
(although Mitchell showed work early at the prestigious Stable Gallery)
was a matter of their belonging to, respectively the wrong sex and gender
for the time. Sandler's book, The New York School published in 1978, recognizes
the contribution of women artist, but finds no room in its page for
Ed Clark or any other artist of color.
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