Clark Art Institute

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

The Clark Art Institute
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Established	1955 (1955)
Location	225 South St, Williamstown, MA 01267
Type	Art Museum and Research Institute
Accreditation	American Alliance of Museums
Founder	Robert Sterling Clark and Francine Clark
Director	Olivier Meslay
Architect	Daniel Deverell Perry, Tadao Ando, Annabelle Selldorf
Website	clarkart.edu

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, commonly referred to as the Clark, is an art museum and research institution located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Its collection consists of European and American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts from the fourteenth to the early twentieth century. The Clark, along with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), forms a trio of art museums in the Berkshires. The institute also serves as a center for research and higher learning. It is home to various research and academic programs, which include the Fellowship Program and the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, as well as one of the most distinguished research libraries in the country, with more than 295,000 volumes in over 72 languages.^[1] The Clark is visited by 200,000 people a year, and offers many educational programs for visitors of all ages throughout the year.^[2]