About George C. Clark

After graduating with honors from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, George C. Clark began a long career in advertising and graphic design, interrupted by thirteen months of combat as a draftee in Vietnam. He began a parallel career in fine arts with his first one-person gallery show in 1978. Since then his landscapes, figure paintings and graphics have been exhibited at many Midwestern museums and galleries and have been awarded prizes by the Art Institute of Chicago, Evanston Art Center, the Artists Guild of Chicago, the Municipal Art League, Rockford College, Beverly Art Center, the Lexington (Kentucky) Art League, and the Rockford Art Museum.

Work by Clark has been acquired by the collections of the United States Air Force, the Illinois State Museums, the Kinsey Institute, the National Veterans Art Museum, the John H. Vanderpoel Art Museum, the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Cleveland, Peat Marwick Mitchell Corporation in Chicago, the Quaker Oats Company in Chicago, McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters in Chicago, Sandoz/Novartis AG of Switzerland, the Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago State University Business School Hall of Fame and many other corporate, institutional and private collections located mostly in the Midwest but also in California, Texas, New York, Israel, Japan and England.