14 Facts About Rose Clark

Harriet Candace "Rose" Clark was an early 20th-century American painter and pictorial photographer.

Rose Clark is best known for the photographs she exhibited with Elizabeth Flint Wade under their joint names, either as "Rose Clark and Elizabeth Flint Wade" or as "Misses Clark and Wade".

Harriet Candace "Rose" Clark was born in 1852 in La Port, Indiana.

Rose Clark was trained as a painter and taught painting and drawing in the 1880s at Saint Margaret's School in Buffalo, New York.

One of her students was Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Clark later designed and restored Luhan's villa in Florence, Italy.

Rose Clark apparently learned some of her photographic artistry from Kasebier; later in her life she said she owed Kasebier for "any success she had with a camera".

Rose Clark never married and little is known about her private life.

Rose Clark died in Buffalo on November 28,1942 and was buried in La Porte.

Rose Clark's obituary focused on her work as a painter and did not mention anything about her photography.

For reasons that have never been explained, Rose Clark and Wade began exhibiting and publishing photos under their joint names beginning in 1899.

For many years, it was assumed that Rose Clark was the artist who took all of the photographs and Wade was the technician who developed and printed them.

Rose Clark clearly had interest in and knowledge of aesthetics, and in several of her articles she gives advice on artistic direction.

Rose Clark and Wade first exhibited under their joint names at shows at the Buffalo Society of Artists and the New York Camera Club in 1899.

In 1902, Stieglitz included a print by Rose Clark and Wade in Series 2 of the landmark portfolio American Pictorial Photography.