Clare Leighton

ARTIST

Leighton, Clare

1898 – 1989

Clare Leighton attended the Brighton School of Art (1915), the
Slade School of Fine Art (1921’23) and the Central School of Arts
and Crafts. Despite her childhood nickname ‘The Bystander’, she
became a hugely visible artist on both sides of the Atlantic, and her
vast oeuvre includes engravings, paintings, bookplates, illustrations
and stained glass. Her twelve plates for Wedgwood, New England
Industries, 1952, are amongst her best-known work. 

She exhibited with the SWE in London (1923) and at the
1934 Venice Biennale ‘ attaining full membership to the Royal
Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in the same year. She also
made several tours of the United States, becoming a naturalised
citizen in 1945. By the time of her death, Leighton had authored
twelve books and made over 840 prints.

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Clare Leighton

ARTIST

Leighton, Clare

1898 – 1989

Clare Leighton attended the Brighton School of Art (1915), the
Slade School of Fine Art (1921’23) and the Central School of Arts
and Crafts. Despite her childhood nickname ‘The Bystander’, she
became a hugely visible artist on both sides of the Atlantic, and her
vast oeuvre includes engravings, paintings, bookplates, illustrations
and stained glass. Her twelve plates for Wedgwood, New England
Industries, 1952, are amongst her best-known work. 

She exhibited with the SWE in London (1923) and at the
1934 Venice Biennale ‘ attaining full membership to the Royal
Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in the same year. She also
made several tours of the United States, becoming a naturalised
citizen in 1945. By the time of her death, Leighton had authored
twelve books and made over 840 prints.

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ARTWORK FOR SALE

SKU: 11127

(15.5cm x 9.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Ellen and Her Children (BPL578), 1944

£395.00

SKU: 11817

(21.4cm x 15.7cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Loading the Ponies, Dalmatia

£575.00

SKU: 11809

(15.3cm x 20.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Road Makers Jugoslavia’ (Dalmatia)

£645.00

SKU: 11807

(16.5cm x 12cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Dalmatia Spinners

£555.00

SKU: 11802

(14cm x 19.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Washing Boat

£550.00

SKU: 11801

(12.7cm x 15.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Sleepy Fish Wife

£575.00

SKU: 10114

(5.2cm x 10.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The original woodblock for: Lo Children Are an Heritage BPL 660, 1952

£1,800.00

SKU: 10115

(5.2cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The original woodblock for: The Lord Reigneth BPL 655, 1952

£1,950.00

SKU: 9705

(6.1cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The original woodblock for: Those were Rolling Hills (Kentucky Scene), BPL 566 1944

£1,900.00

SKU: 9697

(6.4cm x 7.4cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Reading, Writing, Speaking, BPL 730 1959

£1,100.00

SKU: 9690

(9.3cm x 10.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Flowers on a hilltop near a bay

£1,000.00

SKU: 8436

(16.5cm x 17.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Man Drinking from a Gourd

£390.00

SKU: 8438

(22.8cm x 15.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Worker with bucket, preparation for engraving

£380.00

SKU: 7754

(22.3cm x 34.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of leather purses and drapes

£275.00

SKU: 7750

(21cm x 28cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Rural French landscape with houses, circa 1920’s

£1,200.00

SKU: 7752

(20cm x 27cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

French landscape with telephone mast, circa 1920’s

£825.00

SKU: 7753

(20cm x 28cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

French landscape with tree, fence and barrel, circa 1920’s

£975.00

SKU: 7745

(22.3cm x 34.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of Adzes on a stable door

£325.00

SKU: 7746

(35.3cm x 23.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of a butter churn

£280.00

SKU: 5844

(19cm x 13.4cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The calf auction (BPL7), 1924

£475.00

SKU: 5712

(18cm x 12.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Malthouse, (BPL 1), 1923

£480.00

SKU: 5713

(23cm x 28cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Resting, 1931

£675.00

SKU: 5714

(14cm x 15.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Barges, (BPL 6)

£545.00

SKU: 5711

(6.8cm x 12.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Hatteras wreck, circa 1950 (BPL 626)

£250.00

ARCHIVED WORKS

Private
SKU: 9709

(15.5cm x 10.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The original woodblock for: Angels and Trumpets, The Vision Splendid, BPL 762 1965
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SKU: 11816

(15.2cm x 17.7cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Breaking up the old barge
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SKU: 11815

(14.6cm x 10.6cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Chalfont St. Giles
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SKU: 11814

(14.7cm x 10.6cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Hampstead Heath
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SKU: 11813

(16.6cm x 12.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Jugoslav Gypsies
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SKU: 11812

(14.7cm x 10.6cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

St Paul’s Cathedral
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SKU: 11810

(12.7cm x 15.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Toulon Washerwomen
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SKU: 13000

(16.3cm x 12.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Vegetable Seller, Toulon
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SKU: 11806

(19cm x 22.7cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Grape Harvest
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SKU: 11805

(14.7cm x 19.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Dawn in the Train to Mostar
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SKU: 11804

(15cm x 21.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Genoa, Italy
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SKU: 11803

(19cm x 21cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Treading Grapes
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SKU: 11800

(15cm x 11cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The London Docks
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SKU: 13001

(14.7cm x 10.6cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Windsor Castle
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SKU: 10116

(5cm x 5.7cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Darkling Thrush, for title page The Pinnacled Tower
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SKU: 9702

(15.5cm x 10.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Singing, BPL 723 1957
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SKU: 9693

(5.3cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

I went by the field (Psalms), BPL 667 1952
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SKU: 9691

(6.1cm x 12.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

“Where Land Meets Sea” (Coastline is the catalogues title, The Beach is the title of the chapter), BPL 707
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SKU: 9662

(4.3cm x 10.9cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Driftwood, BPL 692
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SKU: 9115

(4.2cm x 5.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Bridge at Mostar
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SKU: 9116

(15cm x 10.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Caledonian Market
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SKU: 8700

(6.4cm x 9.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Sand Grass, BPL 704
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SKU: 8702

(4.3cm x 12cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Low Tide, BPL 706
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SKU: 8703

(7.7cm x 12.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Sand Dunes, BPL 708
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SKU: 8698

(4.2cm x 12cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Wrecked Boat, BPL 695
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SKU: 8649

(6.7cm x 10.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Blueberries, BPL 698
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SKU: 8639

(7.9cm x 7.9cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Where Land Meets Sea
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SKU: 8437

(22.8cm x 14.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Mother with child, preparation for engraving
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SKU: 7749

(18cm x 28cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of corn stock harvest, circa 1941
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SKU: 7747

(22.3cm x 34.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Man at a workbench
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SKU: 7748

(20cm x 33cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Cork Trees Provence, circa 1920’s
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SKU: 7368

(8.2cm x 10.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Odyssey (BPL 773) 1969
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SKU: 7309

(0cm x cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Where Land Meets the Sea – Cranberry, (BPL 685)
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SKU: 6941

(6.2cm x 10.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Gulls and flowering yucca (BPL)
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SKU: 6114

(6.5cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Voice of the Lord, (BPL 647), c. 1952
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SKU: 6020

(7.8cm x 9cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Friendship Is A Sheltering Tree (BPL 755), 1962
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SKU: 6022

(7.8cm x 12cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Ponds (BPL 676), Where Land Meets Sea, 1953
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SKU: 6018

(7.8cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Cast Me Not Off (BPL 652), Psalms, 1952
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SKU: 6010

(5.3cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

When I Consider the Heavens, Psalms (BPL 644), 1952
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SKU: 6002

(5.2cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

They That Go Down To The Sea (BPL 657), Psalms, 1952
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SKU: 5845

(22.8cm x 25.4cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Washing clothes Corsica (BPL258), 1934
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SKU: 5846

(16.5cm x 12.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Umbrella menders Toulon (BPL 28 ), 1926
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SKU: 5847

(22.8cm x 32.4cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Breaking Camp (BPL192), 1931
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SKU: 5842

(7.6cm x 9.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Quahaug Raker (BPL679), circa 1953
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SKU: 5843

(16.5cm x 15.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Trillium (BPL 522)
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SKU: 5836

(0cm x cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Mussel Gatherers Toulon – BPL 27
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SKU: 5841

(24.2cm x 20.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Boston Cod (BPL143)
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SKU: 5710

(16.5cm x 12cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Fishermen and Nets, circa 1950 (BPL 615)
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SKU: 5476

(5cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

As the Fire Burneth, Psalms, BPL 654, 1951/52
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SKU: 5477

(3.7cm x 5.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Plot 3 (BPL ?)
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SKU: 5470

(15.5cm x 10.3cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Dance (BPL 725), 1957
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SKU: 5471

(9.7cm x 7.8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

St. Dunstan (BPL 750), Flowering Hawthorn, circa 1960
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SKU: 5472

(6.5cm x 8.5cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Top Potential (BPL 744) circa 1961
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SKU: 5458

(7.8cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

He Brought Me Up (BPL 649), Psalms, circa 1952
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SKU: 5459

(3.7cm x 8cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Alabama Barn (BPL 533), Tobacco Barn, from Southern Harvest, 1942
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SKU: 5412

(5.1cm x 12.1cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

BPL 682 Blue Fish
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SKU: 5370

(5.3cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

He sent from Above, BPL 645 (Psalms)
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SKU: 5320

(5.3cm x 10cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

(BPL 648), Psalms 1952
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SKU: 5315

(15.2cm x 10.2cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The composer (BPL 724)
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SKU: 5317

(4cm x 7.7cm)

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Fishing (Thoreau-River) BPL 740