International studio (31.1907)

Walter Appleton Clark

AMERICAN SECTION
Copyright, 1907, by John Lane Company
WALTER APPLETON CLARK:
AN APPRECIATION.
BY RICHARD BUTLER
GLAENZER.

It is not often that a man’s work is found so ex-
pressive of his personality as in the instance of
Walter Appleton Clark. Modest and cultivated,
so marked was his reticence that the date of his
birth cannot be fixed more exactly than June, 1876.
And so in his work, it is perhaps a characteristic
simplicity, refinement and an almost austere re-
serve which constitute its chief hold upon the
public, however dependent it may be as art upon
certain technical excellencies. Mr. Clark was born
in Worcester, Mass. In New England he lived
until his twentieth year, and it is the New Eng-
land spirit which pervades his most distinguished

achievements. He
attended the Wor-
cester Polytechnic
Institute, as well
as the High School,
and in April, 1894,
entered the Massa-
chusetts Nautical
Training School.
On the State
school-ship, the
United States
steamship Enter-
prise, he made an
extensive cruise of
five months, which
afforded him his
first glimpse of
Paris and London.
It was the return
voyage, however,


Copyright, iqoo, by Chas. Scribner's Sons
“THE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADER”
BY WALTER APPLETON CLARK


Copyright, 1898, by Chas. Scribner's Sons
“NATURALLY HE WAS SURPRISED AND CONSIDERABLY ALARMED, TILL I DISCHARGED ONE
OF MY SET SPEECHES AT HIM.” ILLUSTRATION FOR “A SAGA OF THE SEAS,” BY KENNETH
GRAHAME, SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE BY WALTER APPLETON CLARK
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