10 Facts About Clark Voorhees

Clark Greenwood Voorhees was an American Impressionist and Tonalist landscape painter and one of the founders of the Old Lyme Art Colony.

The son of a stockbroker, Voorhees was born on May 29,1871, in New York City.

Clark Voorhees was initially drawn to the sciences and earned degrees in chemistry from Yale and Columbia University.

In 1894, Clark Voorhees began to seriously pursue fine art when he enrolled in classes at the Art Students League.

Clark Voorhees studied with Irving Ramsey Wiles on Long Island and with Leonard Ochtman in Connecticut.

Stylistically, Clark Voorhees was one of the Old Lyme artists who remained at least somewhat loyal to the Barbizon-derived, Tonalist style associated with Ranger even after the majority had adopted Childe Hassam's Impressionist style.

Clark Voorhees painted in Newport, Rhode Island and in Western Massachusetts.

Clark Voorhees was awarded a bronze medal at the 1904 St Louis Exposition and in 1905 received one of the National Academy's three Hallgarten Prizes, honoring the best three oil paintings produced in the United States by artists under the age of thirty-five.

Examples of Clark Voorhees's work are in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Florence Griswold Museum, and the Lyme Historical Society.

Clark Voorhees's granddaughter, Janet Fish, is a still life painter with works in the permanent collection of many museums.