John F. Mowbray-Clarke

Jamaican-born American sculptor, 1869–1953

BiographyMowbray-Clarke was an American sculptor specializing in medals, and one of the organizers of the 1913 Armory Show. He was born in Jamaica and married Mary Horgan, an art critic, instructor, and co-owner of the Sunwise Turn bookshop on East 31st Street in New York City. A community of American and British artists, writers, intellectuals, reformers, and anarchists formed around John and Mary at Sunwise Turn and at their home Brocken, a farm in Rockland County, New York, just six miles from their friend, the American modern painter (and member of The Eight) Arthur B. Davies. Many of Mowbray-Clarke’s medallions—of which he produced and exhibited plaster casts—provide evidence of his artistic community.

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