found: African American National Biography, accessed June 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Clark, Ed; Edward Clark; painter, art teacher, airman; born 06 May, 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; attended School of the Art Institute in Chicago (1947-1951); studied at L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris (1952-1954); served ar the U.S. Air Force; was influenced by European painting and American jazz; charter member of Brata Gallery (East Tenth Street, New York City) (1956-1966); created series of extended "shaped" oil paintings on canvas; began painting abstract scenes (1960s); traveled to Nigeria, Crete, Brazil, New Mexico, Sicily, and Egypt, made series of distinctive paintings (1970s); created oval painting in Vétheuil, France (1968), then elliptical, diamond-shaped, round, and square canvases; was artist-in-residence and art instructor at the University of Delaware (1969); taught at the Art Institute in Chicago, and at University of Oregon (1973), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1974), Ohio State University (1976), Louisiana State University (1978), and Syracuse University (1980); exhibited in major U.S. museums, galleries in Paris and Japan; received the Prix d'Othon Friesz from the Louvre (1955), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1972), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award (1981), the Master Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (1985), and the Art for Life honored artist award from the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (2000))
