Melvin W. Clark (b. 1944), Piano Player, 2007.

Melvin W. Clark

(b. 1944)

Piano Player.

Oil on canvas, 2007.

Signed and dated, lower right. Titled, label on the frame verso.

40 x 29 7/8 in. (101.6 x 75.9 cm.), Frame: 45 3/4 x 35 3/4 x 1 in. (116.2 x 90.8 x 2.5 cm.)

Additional Details

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist, 2008.

Private collection, Illinois.

Notes:

Melvin W. Clark studied in Detroit at the Center for Creative Studies and lived in New York in the 1980s and 1990s, where he completed two major public murals including New Sprit Ensemble (1998) for Newark Penn Station in New Jersey. Clark was a resident artist at the Lower East Side Printshop and produced several prints at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. In December 2009 and January 2010, Clark was one of two artists featured in the exhibition Reinterpretations at the Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount Manhattan College, where his jazz-themed works were on view.

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