Clark, Kenneth (Mackenzie), Baron Clark (1903-1983)

English art historian, director of the National Gallery, London, from 1934 to 1945. His books include Leonardo da Vinci (1939), Landscape into Art (1949), and The Nude (1956).

After studying at Oxford, he worked under the art historian Bernard Berenson in Florence. He popularized the history of art through his television series Civilization (1969), published as a book in the same year. His autobiography Another Part of the Wood appeared in 1974.