Clark McDougall (1921 – 1980) was a Canadian painter known for his black enamel style.
He was born in St. Thomas, Ontario and lived and died in the house where he was born at 56 Inkerman Street.[1] When he was 16, he left school, having decided to become an artist. He began by painting watercolour in nearby North Yarmouth. He was self-taught from library books and learned from artists such as the watercolourist in his hometown, William St. Thomas Smith, and Charles Burchfield, whom he visited in Buffalo, New York and who urged him to avoid art school since it would damage what he had as an artist.
In 1950, he traveled to Montreal and Quebec City where he first saw the paintings of Henri Matisse. By 1952-1953, Clark was using ingredients of Fauvism in his work, such as its attention to bright colour. In 1954, McDougall met Clement Greenberg, at a symposium at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo and Greenberg discussed McDougall's work with him.