{{Short description|New Zealand illustrator, sculptor and university lecturer (1905–1966)}}{{Infoboxartist | caption = Russell Clark (Russell Clark Archives, Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū) | birth_date = 27 August 1905 | birth_place = Christchurch | death_date = 29 July 1966 | alma_mater = Canterbury College School of Art | known_for = Sculpture, murals, paintings and illustration | notable_works = ''Family Group'' (1960), initially commissioned for the Hay’s Shopping Centre in Christchurch; now part of the Canterbury University collection | movement = Early New Zealand Modernism | image = RussellClarkPortrait.jpg }}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} thumb|''Seabird'', by Russell Clark, for Samoan school publication '''Russell Stuart Cedric Clark''' (27 August 1905 – 29 July 1966) was a New Zealand artist, illustrator, sculptor and university lecturer.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2010_08/RussellClark1975.pdf|title=Russell Clark 1905–1966 A retrospective exhibition|last=Dunn|first=Michael|publisher=Robert McDougall Art Gallery|year=1975|location=Christchurch}}</ref>
== Early life == Clark was born in Christchurch on 27 August 1905 into a family with a strong interest in art.<ref name="DNZB Clark">{{DNZB|title=Russell Stuart Cedric Clark|first= Neil|last= Roberts|id=5c23|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref> His mother was recognised as a person with a sophisticated sense of colour and his father, a plumber and tinsmith, was an accomplished watercolourist. At an early age Clark was already known to be creating his own cartoons.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 April 1975 |title=Gallery takes a long look at Russell Clark |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19750429.2.88 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=11}}</ref> After attending the Christchurch Boys' High School he went on to study at the Canterbury College School of Art from 1922 to 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark – Artworks, Exhibitions, Profile & Content |url=https://ocula.com/artists/russell-stuart-cedric-clark/ |access-date=14 February 2019 |website=ocula.com |language=en}}</ref> and then to work in an advertising agency. Later he joined John McIndoe the printer and publisher in Dunedin as a commercial artist. During this period Clark used one of the studios to hold popular art classes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 January 1933 |title=Russell Clark Art School |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19330131.2.110 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=Evening Star (Christchurch) |pages=11}}</ref> The classes offered commercial art, fine art and special juvenile classes on Saturday morning.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 January 1936 |title=Advertisements Column 2 |work=Otago Daily Times |pages=10}}</ref> His students included a number of Dunedin artists who went on to have successful art careers including Doris Lusk and Colin McCahon from 1933-35.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Docking |first=Gil |title=Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting |date=1971 |publisher=AH & AW Reed |pages=184}}</ref> McCahon remembered Clark as a 'splendid teacher' and recalled in particular one exercise where he arranged a pile of chalk boxes to demonstrate the handling of tones and volumes.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=Peter |title=Colin McCahon: There is Only One Direction (Vol1 1919-1959) |date=2019 |publisher=Auckland University Press |isbn=9781869408954 |location=Auckland |pages=37}}</ref> In 1930 Clark married Eunice Ingham.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Neil |date=January 2021 |title=Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5c23/clark-russell-stuart-cedric |access-date=23 January 2025 |website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand }}</ref> He was a regular exhibitor with the Otago Art Society, in 1933 the ''Otago Daily Times'' reviewer describing him as 'the outstanding all round contributor to this year's gallery.'<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=11 November 1933 |title=Art Society's Exhibition |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19331111.2.17 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=Otago Daily Times |pages=5}}</ref>
== The Wellington years == In 1937 Clark moved to Wellington to join the advertising agency Catts, Paterson, and Co.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 August 1937 |title=Personal Items |work=Timaru Herald |pages=8}}</ref> This move coincided with his being awarded a commission to produce a large scale mural for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition building in Wellington. He was one of only three artists given this opportunity. Clark's three panel mural the ''Departure of the Tory from Plymouth, 1840''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Gordon H. |title=New Zealand Painting 1920-1940: Adaption and Nationalism |date=1975 |publisher=Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council |location=Wellington, New Zealand |pages=71}}</ref> was positioned at the end of the foyer leading into the main exhibition hall. By using 'a border of kauri and oak leaves and English Tudor roses' Clark's mural highlighted the links between England and its Dominion New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 1939 |title=New Zealand Murals |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19391028.2.142 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=Manawatu Standard |pages=12}}</ref>
thumb|''Sea bird'', for Samoan school journal, by Russell Clark
Clark began designing for the newly launched magazine the ''New Zealand Listener'' from its first issue in June 1939.<ref>{{Cite web |title=First Issue of New Zealand Listener Published |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/first-issue-of-new-zealand-listener-published |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> He went on to become involved in all aspects of the magazine's design including covers, illustrations, cartoons, and headlines. This relationship continued until 1962.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 April 1989 |title=Illustrator for a generation |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19890412.2.102.3 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=26}}</ref> Other publications that featured Clark's work for many years were ''Radio Weekly'' and the Education Department's ''New Zealand School Journal'' which featured his illustrations throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Clark was soon acting as an 'unofficial' art editor for the ''School Journal'' partnering artists and writers. In 1948 he was commissioned by the Education Department to illustrate ''Life at the Pa'', a bulletin written by Ray Chapman Taylor<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Gregory |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/174070966 |title=A nest of singing birds: 100 years of the New Zealand school journal |date=2007 |publisher=Learning Media |isbn=978-0-7903-1963-6 |location=Wellington, N.Z |pages=21, 101 |oclc=174070966}}</ref> about the Urewera Iwi at Ruatahuna, a region he returned to many times.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark Illustrations |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/russell-clark-illustrations |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> Clark's paintings, sculptures and illustrations of Māori were seen to be free of the sentimentality that typified many of the images of the time. Writer and economist Bill Sutch commented that while Clark depicted the 'fun and animated talk on the marae' he also registered 'the social strain put on the Māori race by the white man's alleged civilisation.'<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Gordon H. |title=Gordon H. Brown New Zealand Painting 1940-1960: Conformity and Dissension |date=1981 |publisher=Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council |pages=12, 42-43, 73}}</ref>
== World War II == thumb|''Landing Ships Under Fire'', Treasury Island, 1943, by Russell Clark
After three years with the agency Catts-Patterson, Clark joined Carlton-Caruthers, but he was eager to play a part in the war. In 1942, the New Zealand Society of Arts wrote on his behalf to the Prime Minister Peter Fraser to recommend Clark as the official war artist. The position, however, was given to Peter McIntyre.<ref name=":0" /> Clark was called up later in the year and served as a private involved primarily in sign writing. Early in 1944, however, his position as an official war artist was approved<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://warart.archives.govt.nz/RussellClark|title=Russell Clark {{!}} War Art Digitisation|website=warart.archives.govt.nz|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> and he was sent to the Solomon Islands with the rank of second lieutenant.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Zealand War Art in the Pacific: Russell Clark |url=https://nzsoldierartinthepacificwar.co.nz/official-war-art-2/russell-clark/ |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> While in the Solomons Clark was a member of the hanging committee for an exhibition organised by the Special Services branch of the United States Army featuring work by war artists in the Pacific.<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 1944 |title=Solomons Art Show |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AHCOG19440705.2.26 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette |pages=7}}</ref> On his return to New Zealand Clark was the New Zealand representative in the exhibition ''Art in War'' shown at the Dunedin Settlers Hall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 January 1945 |title=Art in War |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19450109.2.61 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=Evening Star (Christchurch) |pages=5}}</ref>
thumb|Russell Clark, ''Looking towards Tulagi from Halvao'', 1944
== Christchurch years == In 1947 Clark moved to Christchurch to take up a teaching position at the Canterbury University College School of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/what-we-do/uc-in-the-community/exhibitions-and-collections/sculpture-trail/artists/russell-clark- |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> In 1950 he was appointed senior lecturer in painting<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 November 1949 |title=Canterbury College Staff |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19491101.2.42 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=4}}</ref> and continued teaching at the art school until his death in 1966.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 July 1966 |title=Mr Russell Clark Was Painter And Sculptor |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660730.2.133 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=16}}</ref> Clark became a central figure in the Christchurch art scene starting by exhibiting nine paintings and a sculpture in his first Group Show in 1948.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Group Show 48 |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Publications/Art/TheGroup/pdfs/1948.pdf |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> He was also elected a member of the Council for the Canterbury Society of Arts for six years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 December 1948 |title=Canterbury Society of Arts |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19481222.2.73 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=6}}</ref> Clark made lasting friendships with colleagues and other artists and often worked with them on joint projects.<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 1950 |title=Lyttelton In 1851 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19500527.2.133 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=8}}</ref> In 1951 he joined the advisory panel that went on to approve the previously rejected Frances Hodgkins painting ''Pleasure Garden'', proposed for the Robert McDougall Art Gallery's collection.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 July 1951 |title=The Pleasure Garden |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19510719.2.72 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=6}}</ref> Archibald F. Nicoll, Richard Wallwork, Colin Lovell-Smith, Heathcote Helmore and Cecil Kelly were his co-panellists. In the mid-1950s Clark and fellow teacher Eric Doudney pushed for the establishment of an Arts Council to support artists. They produced a well-argued pamphlet proposing 'that some organisation should be brought into being to facilitate the employment of artists…and help in raising the general cultural level.'<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 May 1954 |title=Encouragement of Artists |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19540526.2.81 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=10}}</ref> This advocacy played a role in the eventual establishment of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council.<ref name=":0" />
Two years later Clark met an artist who would make a big Impression on his work: this was his brother-in-law Alan Ingham who had been born in Christchurch but studied sculpture at the Central School of Art in London. After graduating Ingham had been selected by Henry Moore to be an assistant helping with bronze casting and making moulds.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Interesting Story Involving Henry Moore, Russell Clark and Temuka Potteries |url=https://www.newzealandpottery.net/t8238-an-interesting-story-involving-henry-moore-russell-clark-and-temuka-potteries |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref> When he returned to New Zealand in 1953, Ingham worked alongside Clark for a period the next year <ref name=":1">{{Cite book |title=A Concise History of New Zealand Canterbury 1850—2000 |date=2000 |publisher=Robert McDougall Art Gallery |location=Christchurch |pages=71-72}}</ref> and shared his experiences with Moore's casting techniques, working practice and ideas. It was an important time for Clark who was already fascinated by Henry Moore's work and was 'galvanised' to focus on sculpture. The arrival of the Henry Moore exhibition in Christchurch two years later in 1956 increased even further what artist and art critic John Coley described as Henry Moore's 'dominant influence' on Clark's sculpture.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 November 1956 |title=Henry Moore Exhibition Shows Sculptor's Genius |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19561121.2.148 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=18}}</ref> Perhaps in recognition of this connection Clark was asked to open the touring Henry Moore exhibition when it was shown at the Durham Street Gallery in Christchurch.<ref name=":1" /> Although he continued as a prolific illustrator, including projects such as Denis Glover's book ''Hot Water Sailor'' in 1962, from this time on Clark was increasingly engaged in large scale sculptural commissions until his death in 1966.
== Commissioned sculptures == The late 1950s and early to mid-1960s saw Clark produce a significant number of large-scale sculptures. He was a passionate advocate for public art believing that 't is important that the public should become used to outdoor sculpture and to accept it as they would any other seriously conceived decorative work.'<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark |url=https://www.aigantighe.co.nz/Collection/blog/charles-worsley |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref>
His public sculptures include:
1957 Timaru Telephone Exchange. The sculpture was known to locals as ''The Ear''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 May 1957 |title=The Ear |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=12}}</ref>
1959 Mural for Christchurch airport to commemorate the Canterbury international air race by the Air Race Council.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 June 1957 |title=Commemoration of Air Race |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570612.2.156 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=16}}</ref> thumb|''Free Standing Forms'', 1967, commissioned by the Arts Advisory Council and presented by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council 1967
1959 ''Anchor stones (Matahora and Tainui)'' (1958–59) sited alongside the Bledisloe Building in central Auckland.<ref name=":2" />
1960 ''Opo The Dolphin'', Opononi<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 April 1960 |title=Siting Statue of Opo |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19600406.2.68 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=10}}</ref>
1960 ''Family Group''. Initially commissioned for the Hay's Shopping Centre in Christchurch and now part of the University of Canterbury collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark The Family Group, 1960 |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/about-uc/what-we-do/uc-in-the-community/exhibitions-and-collections/sculpture-trail/university-of-canterbury-art-collection/russell-clark-the-family-group--1960 |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref>
1962 Mural for the foyer of the T & G Insurance Building (demolished) in Christchurch.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark Untitled [T & G Mural] |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/92-61a-d/russell-clark/untitled-t-g-mural |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref>
1963 ''Fountain'' commissioned for Armagh Court, Christchurch.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 May 1963 |title=Fountain with Sculpture |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19630530.2.169 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=15}}</ref>
1964 ''Free Standing Forms'' Lower Hutt Civic Centre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Clark - 1966 Free Standing Forms |url=https://publicart.nz/artworks/russell-clark-1966 |access-date=23 January 2025}}</ref>
== Later years and legacy == In 1964 Clark was featured in a one person exhibition at the Durham Street Art Gallery, Christchurch. In his review John Coley noted the impact of Clark's public sculpture throughout New Zealand. 'His work has perhaps reached a wider public in his own country than any other New Zealand painter… a remarkable exploration of the New Zealand character.' He also praised his contribution to the New Zealand Listener over so many years, and his work with the ''School Journal'' which had 'delighted generations of schoolchildren.'<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 1964 |title=Reaching A Wide Public |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640603.2.92 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch)}}</ref> 1964 also saw Clark travel overseas to study architecture and the use of mosaic in public places but he became very ill.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 1964 |title=Will Study Art in Architecture |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640606.2.205 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=15}}</ref> On his return Clark was offered what was to be his final commission when he won a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council competition for sculpture for the Lower Hutt Civic Centre. He died before it could be finished and the work was completed by a sculptor at the University of Canterbury Art School.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 June 1964 |title=Sculpture Prize |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640626.2.114 |access-date=23 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=10}}</ref>
The Russell Clark Award, for excellence in children's book illustration, was established in 1975.<ref>{{cite web |title=LIANZA Russell Clark Award |url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/russell-clark-award/ |access-date=9 August 2021 |website=Christchurch City Libraries }}</ref> Since 2016, the Award has been part of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – Russell Clark Award for Illustration |url=https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults-illustration-russell-clark-award/ |access-date=9 August 2021 |website=Christchurch City Libraries }}</ref> Winners include Gavin Bishop in 1989,<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 November 1982 |title=Children’s book awards |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=16}}</ref> Gwenda Turner in 1985,<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 October 1985 |title=A picture book for the young |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=15}}</ref> and Dick Frizzell in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 July 1988 |title=Award-winning author ‘grew’ with children |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=8}}</ref>
Many of Clark's art works are held in Archives New Zealand in Wellington.
== Selected exhibitions ==
=== Solo === 1938 ''Russell Clark'' New Zealand Artists' Group gallery in Bowen House, Wellington.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 February 1938 |title=Mr. Russell Clark |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19380226.2.138 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=Evening Post (Wellington) |pages=14}}</ref>
1939 ''Russell Clark: Murals'' Wellington Sketch Club.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 November 1939 |title=Wellington Sketch Club |work=Dominion (Wellington) |pages=9}}</ref>
1949 ''Russell Clark'' Dunedin Public Library.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 August 1949 |title=Vitality in Art |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19490826.2.95 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=Otago Daily Times |pages=8}}</ref>
1954 ''Russell Clark'' Wellington Architectural Centre.<ref>{{Cite news |date=21 August 1954 |title=Review |work=Evening Post}}</ref>
1964 Russell Clark Canterbury Society of Arts.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 1964 |title=Some Of Russell Clark’s Work Is Impressive |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640606.2.180 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=14}}</ref>
1966 Academy of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Wellington. Clark was the 'Feature Artist'.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 March 1966 |title=Clark Sculptures At Academy Show |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660319.2.253 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=20}}</ref>
1975 ''Russell Clark 1905-1966 A Retrospective Exhibition'' Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. Curated by Michael Dunn.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1975 |title=Russell Clark: Retrospective |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/russell-clark-retrospective |access-date=24 January 2025}}</ref>
1989 ''Russell Clark: Illustrations'' Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Russell Clark: Illustrations |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/russell-clark-illustrations |access-date=24 January 2025}}</ref>
=== Group === 1933 ''Group'' show Bristol Court Chamber, Christchurch.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 May 1933 |title=Exhibition of Paintings and Etchings |access-date= |work=Evening Star |pages=25}}</ref>
1933 ''Otago Art Society Exhibition''.<ref name=":3" />
1937 ''Coronation Exhibition'' London. Organised by the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 June 1937 |title=Saturday Night |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19370624.2.44.4 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=Evening Star (Dunedin) |pages=7}}</ref>
1939 ''International and New Zealand Art'' National Art Gallery, Wellington.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 November 1939 |title=Art Exhibition |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19391123.2.127 |work=Dominion (Wellington) |pages=13}}</ref>
1939 ''New Zealand Art: A Centennial Exhibition'' Wellington.
1944 ''New Zealand Artists in Uniform''. Organised by the Army and Welfare Service toured New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artists in Uniform exhibition Manatū Taonga |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/artists-uniform-exhibition |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=Ministry for Culture and Heritage}}</ref>
1945 ''Art in War'' Settlers Hall, Dunedin (group).<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 1944 |title=Solomons Art Show |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AHCOG19440705.2.26 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette |pages=7}}</ref>
1948 ''Group Show'' (also 1958, 1959, 1960 ).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Group Catalogues, 1927 — 1977 |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Publications/Art/TheGroup/ |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=Christchurch Art Gallery}}</ref>
1959 ''Group show'' Gallery 91, Christchurch. The first exhibition for Gallery 91 it was opened in a special preview by Ngiao Marsh.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 1959 |title=New Art Gallery |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19590122.2.33 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=7}}</ref>
1959 ''Eight New Zealand Painters III'' Auckland Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 June 1960 |title=Last Show In “Eight N.Z. Painters” Series The Best |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19600623.2.144 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Press Christchurch) |pages=17}}</ref>
1989 ''Artists on the Avon'' Christchurch Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 May 1989 |title=Artists on the Avon |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19890531.2.99.13 |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Press (Christchurch) |pages=22}}</ref>
1991 ''Art and Organised Labour'' City Gallery Wellington.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art and Organised Labour |url=https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/art-and-organised-labour/ |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=City Gallery Wellington}}</ref>
== Collections == [https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/search/artworks?section=collection&artist=russell+clark Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki]
[https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/search?q=%22Russell+Clark%22§ion=collection Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu]
[https://collection.dunedin.art.museum/objects?query=%22Russell+clark%22 Dunedin Public Art Gallery]
[https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects?query=%22Russell+Clark%22 MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri]
[https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search/%22Russell%20clark%22/results?pager=1 Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand]
[https://collection.waikatomuseum.org.nz/objects?query=%22russell+clark%22 Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga Waikato]
== Essential reading == Michael Dunn ''Russell Clark: 1905-1966 A Retrospective Exhibition.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunn |first=Michael |date=1975 |title=Russell Clark: 1905-19666 A Retrospective Exhibition. |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/media/uploads/2010_08/RussellClark1975.pdf |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=Christchurch Art Gallery}}</ref>
NOTE: Many of Clark's art works and papers are held in Archives New Zealand in Wellington.
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