Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. stipple drawing on paper, Cat 26045

2013.21.11

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Artist

Michael Vinson Clark (Clark V. Fox) (1946 - )

Title

Cat

Creation Date

8/16/1977

Century

mid-20th century

Dimensions

11 1/4 x 10 in. (28.58 x 25.4 cm)

Object Type

drawing

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

stipple drawing on paper

Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

Copyright

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Accession Number

2013.21.11

A close friend of the Vogels, Michael Vinson Clark, who now works under the name Clark V. Fox as an homage to his Native American ancestry, met the Vogels through Richard Tuttle. Together with Herb, Clark regularly attended lectures about art at The Frick Collection and elsewhere. “Art chose me,” Clark notes. “I’m an American Indian, and Indians make stuff. My father carved. My mother painted. When I was five, I’d go up and down the street trying to sell my small paintings. By high school, I was full-scale artist.” This drawing reflects Herb’s high regard for animals and the attention he lavished on his pets, including the cats he and Dorothy nurtured over many years. Dorothy noted about her husband: “he had an interest in nature before art. … Somehow I think the nature interest also led to the art.” As Richard Tuttle would observe: “One of the things I liked about them was that they were very strongly committed to animals. And I can’t tell you why, but I think there’s a remarkable relation between art and animals.”