1964 Blake Clark Pictorial Map of Arizona

Blake Everett Clark (June 22, 1900 - January 17, 1979) was an American artist. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of a stockbroker, Clark studied at Milton Academy (1917). ON graduation he went to France to serve in World War I (1914 - 1818) with the 301st Ambulance Detail Battery. On his return not the United States, he enrolled in Bowdoin College (1923), and Tufts College. He then moved to Paris where he studied art at the Académie Delécluse, Montparnasse. He returned to Boston by 1925, where he pursued a career in marine and landscape painting. During this time, he painted a second home in Ogunquit, Maine. While living in Boston, Clark collaborated with Edwin Birger Olsen (1902 - 1996) on a series of three pictorial maps: The Colour of An Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical (1926), A Kite View of Philadelphia and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926), and Map of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia shewing the Architecture and History from the most Ancient Times down the Present (1926). He married Muriel Cooley in the 1930s, and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as an artist and a buyer at a department store. He disappears in subsequent decades, but reappears in Arizona in 1964, when he issued a pictorial map of that state, A New Mappe of Ye Old Arizona. He died in Maricopa, Arizona, in 1979. More by this mapmaker...