His work reflects his own personal experiences including the fishing industry of his parents’ world. An Edward Hopper drawing of this Gloucester house, which I identified, was gifted to the Minneapolis Art Institute and included in a travel exhibition highlighting major drawings from this famous repository.Ĭlarence Manning Falt clerked for various businesses on Main Street to support his art practice.īy the 1900 census, clerk was dropped from the “occupation” category, “Author” stood alone.įalt photographed and wrote about Gloucester, where he was born and raised during the late 1800s. Photo caption: 172 East Main Street, Gloucester, Mass. The Falt family eventually purchased 172 East Main Street Clarence and his surviving siblings continued to live there as adults. Clarence Manning Falt (1861-1912) was a Gloucester poet and photographer, a son of a Canadian immigrant & fisherman and a Gloucester mother & homemaker (born and raised in a fisherman generations family herself).
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