Jeanne Leighton Lundberg Clarke was born in Alpena, Michigan in 1925. She is a painter whose work is characterized by widely dispersing, crystal-like centers of interest. She lives in Provo, Utah.

Clarke studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at the University of Chicago until she married and settled in Connecticut. While living there, she studied at Yale University. Clarke earned her MFA from Brigham Young University in 1979 and joined the faculty as an instructor of drawing and painting a year later.

Clarke's paintings contain symbols and metaphors that have multiple meanings. Her realist style of painting has elements of color field, op-art, and postimpressionist technique and always depicts people. She fills every bit of the canvas with interest and design.

Her works, Entertaining Favorite Ladies II (1993), The Earth is Full of Goodness of the Lord: Portrait of Rebecca (1985), and Woman After Catherine, Green #1 (1987), have been selected for the Springville Museum of Art permanent collection.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from the Springville Museum of Art.