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J.L. CLARKE BRONZE MOUNTAIN GOAT - #21 OF 50
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This is a J.L. CLARKE BRONZE MOUNTAIN GOAT. It is #21 of 50. It is 3 1/2" tall and 2 1/2" long. It is shown on a wood base. It is NOT attached to the wood base but the base does come with it. is a little information I found on the internet about John Clarke: John L. Clarke (1881 - 1970) John L. Clarke was born on May 10, 1881 to Horace and First Kills, the daughter of Blackfeet Chief Stands Alone. He was raised in the Highwood area, near Great Falls w smallpox and scarlet fever were endemic, taking the lives of five of John's brothers. John contracted scarlet fever when he was two years old, leaving him deaf and unable to speak. As a teen, John attended the Montana School for the Deaf in Boulder w he took his first carving class. Years later he recalled; " When I was a boy I first used mud that was solid or sticky enough from anyplace I could find it. While I attended Boulder School for the Deaf, t was a carving class. This was my first experience in carving. I carve because I take great pleasure in making what I see that is beautiful. When I see an animal I feel the wish to create it in wood as near as possible." Clarke finished his formal education at St. John's School for the Deaf in Wisconsin . In 1913, John returned to live with his father on the east side of Glacier. With its impressive library, their home attracted artists, writers, and musicians including Mary Roberts Rinehart and Joseph Sharp. Four years later, Clarke exhibited a carving at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia . Bolstered by its reception, Clarke began working in a small studio near Swiftcurrent Falls . Louis Hill was so impressed with Clarke's talent that he commissioned wooden bears for the bases of the table lamps used in his lodges. He also purchased 100 small carvings of goats to sell in hotel gift shops. In 1918, Clarke married Mary "Mamie" Peters Simon who became an invaluable business manager, acting as his interpreter, press secretary, and correspondent. Shortly after he married, John received a letter from Charlie Russell responding to his letter about how to sell his carvings. Years later Mamie discussed their friendship: "His visits were of greatest possible moments to John. Although at first greeting John invariably told Mr. Russell (Indian sign language -- of which he too was very good), "Let us exchange heads, yours is fine." Then (Mr. Russell) would laugh and tell John, "Yours too is good." Mr. Russell would then look at all of my husband's work, sculpture and landscape (oil) and praise it, encouraging just enough and not too much. He was so understanding, deeply sympathetic and in all wholly lovable." Galleries in New York , Boston , London , and Paris exhibited Clarke's woodcarvings. Collectors included Warren G. Harding, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Louis Hill, and Charlie Russell. Clarke won a gold medal from the American Art Academy in 1918, and exhibited at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair.Clarke's reputation as a wood carver drew artists from across the country and Europe to his modest studio. Students watched with great interest as he expertly carved mountain goats, bears, big horn sheep, and grizzlies from blocks of wood. AND: JOHN LOUIS CLARKE was the son of Blackfeet tribesman Horace Clarke . Scarlet fever at the age of two left him permanently deaf and mute, earning him his Blackfeet name, Cutapuis--"the man who talks not." Throughout his life, he patiently communicated by writing notes, using sign language, or creating art. John's artistic abilities emerged at a very early age. In 1913 he returned to East Glacier w he opened a studio from which he operated until his death in 1970.John Clarke is usually considered self-taught, although he attended the Chicago Art Institute for a short time. John became a most prolific artist who worked in oils, watercolors, clays, charcoals, and even crayons. But his real fame developed from his international reputation for his sensitively executed, vibrant wood carvings of bears, mountain goats, and other ... 
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