Clarence Clark Rosenkranz (1871-1959)

Clarence Clark Rosenkranz was born in New York in 1871.  He received most of his artistic training in New York City, studying at one time under William Merritt Chase.  Rosenkranz moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1913, where he conducted art classes to supplement his income.  He received several mural commissions and later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to instruct at the Minnesota Art School and the St. Paul Art Institute.  The highlight of his career was a commission in 1927 to paint murals for the displays at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  The museum sent Rozenkranz to Asia and Africa to make studies of the natural habitat in preparation for creating the displays.  He was also commissioned to paint murals for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.  Clarence Rosenkranz died in New York in 1959.

Information from Minnesota Impressionists, Rena Neumann Coen, 1996, Afton Historical Society Press