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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Onions, 1881
Oil on canvas
15 3/8 x 23 7/8 in.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Edouard Manet
Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume,
1862-63
Oil on canvas
37 1/4 x 44 3/4 in.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Sleeping Girl with a Cat,
1880
Oil on canvas
47 1/4 x 36 5/16 in.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Berthe Morisot
The Bath (Girl Arranging Her Hair), 1885-86
Oil on canvas
35 7/8 x 28 7/16 in.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusett

Edgar Degas
Dancers in the Classroom, c.1880
Oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 34 13/16 in.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Thomas Eakins
Dr. Agnew (Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, 1818-92),
c.1889
Oil on canvas
49 x 31 1/2 in.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903

John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Carolus Duran,
1879
Oil on canvas
46 x 37 13/16 in.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Edward Hopper
House by the Railroad, 1925
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 in.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously

Vincent van Gogh
The Night Cafe, 1888
Oil on Canvas
28 1/2 x 36 1/4 in.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903

Paul Cezanne
The Card Players, early 1880s
Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960

Henri Matisse
Seated Odalisque, 1924
Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Adele R. Levy Fund, 1962

The Clark Brothers Collect
Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings

Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, and Gilbert T. Vincent
With additional contributions by Daniel Cohen-McFall, Mari Yoko Hara, Susannah Maurer, Kathleen M. Morris, Kathryn Price, Richard Rand, and Marc Simpson

This meticulously researched and handsomely produced volume accompanies the exhibition and explores the superlative collections of brothers Sterling and Stephen Clark. Detailed biographical essays are complemented by discussions of specific artists and paintings that Sterling and Stephen collected, offering new insights into the brothers' personal lives and public profiles, and situating them within the history of American museums and philanthropy. Featuring more than three hundred archival photographs and illustrations of the works from their collections, the book also includes an illustrated chronology and a previously unpublished checklist of works purchased by these two influential yet relatively unknown collectors.

384 pages, 9 ½ x 11 inches
149 color, 64 quadratone, and 130 halftone illustrations
2006
Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London
ISBN 0-931102-65-0 (softcover)
ISBN 0-300-11619-5 (hardcover)