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oil paint canvas
Currently on view at Mint Museum--UPTOWN
Museum purchase: The Katherine and Thomas Belk Acquisition Fund
In this large, colorful painting, Alson Skinner Clark captured the energy, activity, and epic scale of one of the major engineering feats of the modern era: the Panama Canal. Clark was one of three American artists (along with painter Jonas Lie and printmaker Joseph Pennell) to visit Panama during the Canal’s construction and to create a series of works documenting its construction. Like his European predecessor Claude Monet, who in the 1870s painted a series of images of the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris, Clark used feathery brushstrokes and pastel hues to record the billowing smoke of train engines—celebrating a symbol of modern life. This lighthearted and celebratory approach seems rather ironic in hindsight, considering what we now know about the horrific conditions under which the Canal was actually built. Clark exhibited his Panama Canal series at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, where "In the Lock, Miraflores" was awarded a Bronze Medal.
Accession Number: 2017.44
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