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3 unusual facts about Walter Leighton Clark


Hovsep Pushman

Barrie introduced the artist to Walter Leighton Clark, who was in the process of establishing the Galleries.

Walter Leighton Clark

When the Stockbridge Casino, designed by Stanford White in 1887, fell into disuse, Clark, French, and Riggs purchased the building and had it moved to its current location.

Items sold included two paintings: "Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist" by Bernardino Luini, sold for $1000, and Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Portrait of Marten Rijckaert", sold for $720.


William Adams Delano

In 1922, Delano designed the interiors of the Grand Central Art Galleries, an artists' cooperative established that year by John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark, and others.


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