Robert Judson Clark, considered the father of the American Arts and Crafts revival and a Princeton professor emeritus of art and archaeology, died Jan. 4, 2011, at home after a lengthy illness. He was 73.
Clark graduated from UC, Berkeley in 1960. He received a master’s from Stanford in 1964, and an M.F.A. in 1966 and a Ph.D.
in 1974 from Princeton. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1968, and became a full professor in 1988, retiring in 1997.
He taught a graduate seminar and undergraduate course in modern architecture from the late 18th century to the present, and an undergraduate course in American art from the colonial period to 1916. He also taught in Princeton’s Program in American Studies.
Clark’s greatest renown came from the 1972 exhibition he directed for the Princeton University Art Museum, The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916. The exhibit went to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Clark was the editor and co-author of the exhibition’s catalog, which was reprinted in 1992, on the exhibit’s 20th anniversary.
Clark is survived by his wife, Nancy, and two children.
Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.