Artful Living
Waxing Eloquently
BY ROBIN F. DEMATTIA
I 30 JULY - OCTOBER
f the Great Depression hadn’t occurred, you might be reading about Robert William Clark Jr., who would have become an architect, and Phyllis Chase Clark, who had dreams of being a fashion designer. But the couple had to face economic realities
and so took other jobs to pay the bills. Instead, their artistic eye and flair passed along to their daughter, Muffy Clark Gill, who
has been a successful professional artist for more than 30 years. “The drive and talent comes from my father’s side of the family,” Muffy says. “My
grandmother was in the Brazer Guild (known today as the Historical Society of Early American Decoration) with Esther Brazer. She made Colonial reproduction paintings, re- caned and stenciled Hitchcock chairs, and had a commercial lampshade business.” Muffy is quick to add, though, that her mother nurtured her artistic side. “She took
me to the Met and the Fricke,” says Muffy, who grew up in New Jersey near the famous museums. “She drove me to drawing classes every Saturday. She kept my art skills going.” Muffy earned a bachelor of science degree in graphic design from Boston University.
At her first two jobs out of college, she used her graphic design skills to create ads, design section covers and paste up the pages at newspapers. When an ad sales job opened
Batik, or the Japanese technique known as Rozome, is an ancient dyeing and then pushing the dye into the fabric, waxing again
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