About This Artwork
Ralph Elmer Clarkson
American, 1861-1942
Nouvart Dzeron, A Daughter of Armenia, 1912
Oil on canvas
203.2 x 101.6 cm (80 x 40 in.)
Friends of American Art Collection, 1912.1803
Ralph Elmer Clarkson was an influential painting instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903 to 1920. He was an important member of a group of Chicago artists, architects, and writers that included Louis Sullivan and Lorado Taft. Nouvart Dzeron, the model in this painting, was one of his students.