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Robert Judson Clark, a Princeton professor emeritus of art and archaeology who was considered the father of the Arts and Crafts revival, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, at home in Lafayette, Calif., after a lengthy illness. He was 73.Clark taught a graduate seminar and an undergraduate course in modern architecture covering the late 18th century to the present and an undergraduate course in American art from the colonial period to 1916. He also participated in the University's Program in American Studies, an interdepartmental course of study on American civilization.In 1972, Clark directed an exhibition for the Princeton University Art Museum titled "The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916." The exhibition traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.