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| Born | May 10, 1881 |
| Died | November 20, 1970 (aged 89) |
| Nationality | Blackfoot |
| Known for | Wood Carving |
| Patron(s) | John D. Rockefeller, President Warren G. Harding, Louis W. Hill, and Charles M. Russell. |
John Louis Clarke (May 10, 1881 - November 20, 1970) was a deaf and mute Blackfoot wood carver from East Glacier, Montana noted for his wildlife carvings related to Glacier National Park. His Blackfoot name was "Cutapuis" (The Man Who Talks Not).
Early life
[edit]John L. Clarke was born in Highwood, Montana on May 10, 1881 to Blackfoot tribesman Horace J. Clarke and Margaret First Kill (daughter of Chief Stands Alone). He was one of eight children and was the grandson of Montana fur trader Major Malcolm Clarke. Malcolm Clarke is most noted for his murder by a band of Piegan Blackfeet at his Prickly Pear Creek ranch north of Helena, Montana on August 17, 1869, an event that led directly to the Marias Massacre in January of 1870. During the 1869 raid on Malcolm Clarke's ranch, Horace, John's father was wounded.[1]
At the age of two, scarlet fever left John deaf during an outbreak that killed four of his brothers.[2] His education began in 1894 at the North Dakota School for the Deaf at Devils Lake, North Dakota. He also attended the Montana Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Boulder, Montana [3], the St. John’s School for the Deaf in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School. Although he learned wood carving in school, he never received any formal art education. Because of his affliction, he was given the Blackfoot name of "Cutapuis" or "Man who talks not" at an early age.
In 1888, while John was at school, the Clarke family moved to Midvale, Montana which later became known as East Glacier. John's father Horace became a prominent Blackfoot tribal leader and was instrumental in the treaty and land sale that ceded Blackfoot lands to the U.S. Government for the new national park. John returned to live and work in East Glacier in 1912-13. Glacier National Park had been created in 1910, and John Clarke began working as a guide for tourists in the eastern portions of the park.
East Glacier, Montana
[edit]"John Louis Clarke-Cutapuis—"The Man Who Talks Not"" (PDF). Montana Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-03-11.
Lang, Harry G. (1995). A Biographical Dictionary-Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 74–77. ISBN 0313291705. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
"John L. Clarke's First Oil Painting Real Oil Painting by Indian Louis W. Hill Discovers Red Man Artist in Glacier National Park". Historical Fort Benton. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
"John L. Clarke". Rochester Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
Loren P. Pinski. "John L. Clark, Cutapuis, The Man Who Talks Not". Retrieved 2013-03-14.
Marion Brymner Appleton, ed. (1941). Who's who in Northwest art; a biographical directory of persons in the Pacific Northwest working in the media of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, illustration, design, and the handicrafts. Seattle: Frank McCaffey. p. 13.
Adolf Hungry Wolf (2006). The Blackfoot Papers-Volume 4 Pikunni Biographies. Shookumchuck, British Columbia: Good Medicine Cultural Foundation. pp. 1041–1042. ISBN 0920698867.
Exhibitions, awards and reviews
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[edit]- 1941, "...is generally considered the best portrayer [sic] of western wildlife in the world." [4]
- "When John L. Clarke finished carving a bear, you could just smell it." - Artist J. K. Ralston[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Peterson, Nancy M. (2006). "Why Should Anyone Be Ashamed? Helen P. Clarke (1843-1923) Blackfoot-English". Walking in Two Worlds:Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path. Caldwell, ID: Claxton Press. pp. 25–46. ISBN 0870044508.
- ^ Michael McCoy (2007). Montana Off the Beaten Path. ISBN 0-7627-4423-5.
John L. Clarke, whose Blackfeet name was Cutapuis, "The Man Who Talks Not," was a Blackfeet Indian born in Highwood in 1881. ...
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Now known as the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind in Great Falls, Montana Chere Jiusto. "Trustees for Those Who Come after Us" (PDF). Drumlummon Institute. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
- ^ Marion Brymner Appleton, ed. (1941). Who's who in Northwest art; a biographical directory of persons in the Pacific Northwest working in the media of painting, sculpture, graphic arts, illustration, design, and the handicrafts. Seattle: Frank McCaffey. p. 13.
- ^ Pinski, Loren P. "John L. Clark, Cutapuis, The Man Who Talks Not". Retrieved 2013-03-14.
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