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Siblings and their collections.(Current and coming)
Alfred Corning Clark was the only surviving child of Edward Clark, an attorney in Cooperstown, New York, who amassed a vast fortune though his partnership with the inventor of the continuous-stitch sewing machine, Isaac Singer. Alfred and his wife Elizabeth produced four sons--Edward Severin (called Rino), Robert Sterling (called Robin), F. Ambrose (called Brose), and Stephen Carleton. The family divided their time between New York City and Cooperstown, where Edward Clark had built an estate called Fernleigh.
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Edward Severin Clark, the eldest son, was a gentleman farmer in Cooperstown and his philanthropy was directed to regional charities such as the local hospital. Robert Sterling moved to Paris following his graduation from Yale University in 1899, and there spent most of his time collecting art, courting and then marrying an actress at the Comedie Francaise, Francine Clary (nee Modzelewska), with whom he later moved back to New York City. Ambrose was the bon vivant of the family who concentrated on breeding horses and having fun.
Stephen, a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, was saddled with overseeing the family business--a burdensome job that included managing the various trusts that were shared by the brothers. Philanthropy occupied what little spare time he had, and fortunately for the Clark heirs he was adept at making money. He gave his money away because he always felt he could replace it by going back to work. The beneficiaries of his time, money, and art collections were the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He founded and funded a number of institutions in Cooperstown, where he maintained a weekend house. These were the Farmers' Museum, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Fenimore Art Museum. He persuaded the New York State Historical Association to move from Ticonderoga to Cooperstown by guaranteeing that he would supply an art collection and give them a building.
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Art was a passion shared by both Stephen and his brother Sterling and they enjoyed a very close relationship until 1923 when a feud over the family trusts severed communication of any kind between them for nearly three decades. An exhibition that compares the two brothers' collections brings together some seventy paintings. The show is entitled The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings and it is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, ...
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