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445. ROLAND CLARK (AMERICAN 1874-1957) WATERCOLOR ON PAPER “MALLARD DUCKS LANDING IN
THE MARSH”, signed lower left, Roland Clark.
14 ⅞ in. x 23 ⅞ in. Overall: 21 ⅛ in. x 30 ⅛ in.
2,500/3,500
Roland Clark graduated from the William Kellogg School in New York City and pursued his formal art training at the Art Students League - New
York. He was asked in 1938 to create the Federal Duck Stamp design. Clark was an accomplished writer with autobiographical collection of sporting
articles and short stories including “Stray Shots”, “Gunner’s Dawn” and “Pot Luck.”
446. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED COPY OF “ROLAND CLARK’S
ETCHINGS”, Published New York, The Derry Dale Press #5 of 50, circa
1938, tooled leather binding, fifty numbered copies of the De Luxe edition
of the Roland Clark’s Etchings have been printed by Eugene V. Connett at
Derrydale press, this is copy number 5. There is also a regular edition of eight
hundred copies. Accompanied by a limited edition “To Keep a Tryst with the
Dawn: An Appreciation of Roland Clark” by John T. Ordeman, and privately
published by John T. Ordeman, Henderson, North Carolina, 1989 #616/1100,
with original dust cover.
3,000/5,000
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