GARDEN WATERFALL

Waterfall in Chicago Botanic Garden, 16 x 12 inch watercolor by George C. Clark    SOLD

I painted this waterfall on a summer day at the Chicago Botanic Garden, which is located in one of the lakeshore suburbs north of the city.

TOPIARY

Garden Gate, Lake Forest, Illinois,  28 x 22 inch oil, pencil, and pastel on paper painting by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

I rarely use pastel, but here I think it worked well describing the texture of the foliage on the topiary bushes and the trees in the distance.

PENDARVIS

Pendarvis, Mineral Point, Wisconsin,  6.5 x 11 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark   AVAILABLE

Pendarvis is a carefully restored collection of early 19th century houses built by miners from Cornwall in the lead-mining town of Mineral Point.  It is a Wisconsin State Historic Site now.

A ROOFTOP IN BERLIN

A ROOFTOP IN BERLIN

Airlift C-47 on the Roof of the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin, 13 x 16 inch ink, watercolor and colored pencil painting by George C. Clark    UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ART COLLECTION

Here is another painting from my visit to Germany last summer, although I painted this one recently from photographs I took on-site.  This American military transport plane is suspended by cables from a crane-like gantry over the roof of the new Deutsches Technikmuseum (what we would call a Museum of Science and Industry) in Berlin.   It is both a part of the museum's aviation collection and a salute to the Allied Airlift that saved the city when the Russians cut off ground transportation in 1948-9.  The plane is cantilevered to hang out over the facade of the building.  The photo below shows what it looks like when you are approaching the museum at ground level.  It's pretty spectacular.

Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin,  photo by George C. Clark

AUNT MARY'S BEGONIAS

Aunt Mary's Begonias, 6 x 5 inch ink and colored pencil drawing by George C. Clark   SOLD

We arrived early for a visit to my wife's Aunt Mary on the farm in Delphi, Indiana, and she wasn't home from an errand yet.  While waiting for her I sat on the deck outside her house and drew the flowers in one of her planters.

DOG BEACH, WILMETTE, ILLINOIS

Dog Beach, Wilmette, Illinois, 10 x 14 inch watercolor by George C. Clark   SOLD

Wilmette, one of Chicago's North Shore suburbs, has a beach for dogs in its Gilson Park on a peninsula between Lake Michigan and the channel leading to its harbor.  Masts of sailboats in the harbor are visible in the background at the right.

PAPER DEMON, HONG KONG

Paper Demon, Hong Kong, 12 x 9 inch ink and watercolor by George C. Clark    AVAILABLE

In 1986 I was working on the first exhibition at Evanston Art Center of my series A Year in the Tropics: Images of Vietnam by George C. Clark.  In that first version of the show I included images from the two 5-day R&Rs I got during my tour, visits to Hong Kong and Singapore.  I showed a few of my photographs and I painted a street scene from Singapore and this drawing of ladies putting the finishing touches on a paper and bamboo demon for a street festival in Hong Kong.  The series or parts of it have been exhibited in various venues since then (including the Thompson Center in Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the National Veterans Art Museum), but in subsequent exhibitions I didn't include the Hong Kong and Singapore material as being not quite germane to the Vietnam War experience the rest of the art dealt with.

I made the Paper Demon ink drawing on paper that wasn't suitable for watercolor, so I used the silkscreen printmaking process to transfer the drawing onto a couple of sheets of illustration board and hand-colored both of them, producing two similar but not identical paintings.  This enabled me to include the image in an exhibition of travel art at the same time as my A Year in the Tropics show.