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James Lippit Clark James L. Clark (Born 18 November 1883, Providence, Rhode Island - died 1969) was an American sculptor who specialized in wildlife art. Following his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, he worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He sketched animals at the Central Park Zoo and the Bronx Zoo. He studied taxidermy in Chicago with Carl Akeley, considered to be the "father of modern taxidermy", who was Chief Taxidermist at the Field Museum from 1896 to 1909. In 1908, he studied wildlife in their natural settings in Wyoming. In the same year he traveled to Africa with Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore where he took photographs for Collier's Weekly. On this trip Clark produced the "first film to record African wildlife." He brought back specimens for hunters like Theodore Roosevelt and for American museums. He returned regularly to Africa and also traveled to Asia collecting specimens. Clark was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the New York Zoological Society, and the American Geographical Society.

American Museum of Natural History
Clark creating dioramas and mounted specimens for the Akeley African Hall, the Vernay Faunthorpe Hall of Asiatic mammals, and the North American Hall of Mammals.

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