Jane Currie Clark was born in Baltimore in 1906. Starting at age 70, the parallels in her career and that of Grandma Moses are significant. She paints “memory” pictures of her childhood, placing herself in each painting. Totally without art training, Mrs. Clark painted her first picture after retiring in 1976 from a sales job in a department store.

Her work has appeared three successive years in the Washington International Art Fair, as well as in others ranging geographically from Zurich, Switzerland to the Jewish Community Center in Baltimore.

Mrs. Clark’s style is evolving so as to color the purity of her naiveté with a daub of sophistication - not in subject matter, but in technique. Naive painting often is distinguished by inattention to perspective. Figures in the background may be as large as those in the foreground. As a result such work is characterized by flatness. Mrs. Clark strives now for natural perspective. It is here that she is becoming a little less naive.