Mark W. Clark
date: label: associated date
content: 1919 - 1940
name: label: associated person; depicted (sitter)
content: Clark, Mark
label: artist
content: Chase, Joseph Cummings
notes: label: Description
content: Oil on illustration board. Portrait of four star General Mark W. Clark. Army and Navy service ribbons for decorations and medals include: Distinguished Service Cross (not visible in portrait), Army Distinguished Serivce Medal, Navy Distinguished Serivce Medel, Legion of Merit (not visible in portrait), Bronze Star with "V" Device, Purple Heart, Victory with three Gold Stars, (unknown ribbon with a center block of black, two pink stripes, and ending and begining in red obsured by lapel), American Defense Service, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign with six Gold Stars, World War II Victory Medal, Army of Occupation Medal, Order of the British Empire Knight, (unknown ribbon of solid red possibly with a rosette flanked by two green dots), French Croix de Guerre, Order of Suvorov First Class, Order of the Southern Cross Knight, (unknown ribbon of alternating yellow and green bands, green is the large center block), (unknown ribbon of yellow with two bands of green at the begining and end), (unknown ribbon with equally sized blue, red, and blue blocks), Order of Ouissam Alaouite Morocco, (unknown ribbon of alternating stripes of yellow and black), Order Virtuti Militari Silver Cross, (Unknown ribbon of red, white, and green, bands), (unknown ribbon of solid dark green with a large gold star design in center), and the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ribbon. Clark wears a Fifth Army Patch on the shoulder of his left arm sleeve and a Overseas Service patch with eight gold bars and two gold chevrons on the lower left arm sleeve. He wears a officer pin on his collar. Clark also wears a gold watch on his left hand. His right hand has not been filled in with color.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph Cummings Chase
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.46985
label: catalog number
content: 46985
label: accession number
content: 166217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: oil (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: illustration board (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 18 1/2 in; 60.96 cm x 46.99 cm