[2] In 1866 Skougaard gave a series of recitals in New York City in conjunction with Alfred H. Pease at the Irving Hall.

[3] In 1874 he have a charitable concert at the Steinway Hall in aid of the Scandinavian poor of New York City.

[5] The apartment was a favorite evening resort for music lovers, attracted by Skougaard's very companionable qualities, and the house for years was known as "Severini Hall".

[10] Clark also commissioned Brotherly Love (1886–87) to American sculptor George Grey Barnard to adorn his friend's grave in Langesund, Norway.

[11] The homoerotic sculpture depicts two nude male figures blindly reaching out to each other through the block of marble that separates them.