John Clarke (Montana, 1881 - 1970) Signed lower right. Sight Size: 4.75 x 7.5 in. Overall Size: 9.25 x 11.75 in. Framed behind glass. Clarke is usually considered self-taught, although he attended the Chicago Art Institute for a short time. He became a most prolific artist who worked in oils, watercolors, clays, charcoals, and even crayons. But his real fame developed from his international reputation for his sensitively executed, vibrant wood carvings of bears, mountain goats, and other wild animals of the Glacier National Park, particularly using cottonwood.