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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SKU: 11817

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Loading the Ponies, Dalmatia

£575.00

SKU: 11813

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Jugoslav Gypsies

£595.00

SKU: 11811

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Windsor Castle

£460.00

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Toulon Washerwomen

£495.00

SKU: 11809

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Road Makers Jugoslavia’ (Dalmatia)

£645.00

SKU: 11807

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Dalmatia Spinners

£444.00

SKU: 11802

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Washing Boat

£440.00

SKU: 11801

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Sleepy Fish Wife

£575.00

SKU: 11127

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Ellen and Her Children (BPL578), 1944

£440.00

SKU: 10114

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

£1,800.00

SKU: 10115

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

£1,950.00

SKU: 9705

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

£1,900.00

SKU: 9693

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

£1,000.00

SKU: 9697

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Reading, Writing, Speaking, BPL 730 1959

£1,100.00

SKU: 9690

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Flowers on a hilltop near a bay

£1,000.00

SKU: 9692

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Lighthouse, BPL 688 1954

£1,800.00

SKU: 8436

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Man Drinking from a Gourd

£390.00

SKU: 8438

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Worker with bucket, preparation for engraving

£380.00

SKU: 7750

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Rural French landscape with houses, circa 1920’s

£1,200.00

SKU: 7752

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

French landscape with telephone mast, circa 1920’s

£825.00

SKU: 7753

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

£975.00

SKU: 7754

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of leather purses and drapes

£275.00

SKU: 7746

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of a butter churn

£280.00

SKU: 7745

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of Adzes on a stable door

£325.00

SKU: 5844

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The calf auction (BPL7), 1924

£475.00

SKU: 5712

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Malthouse, (BPL 1), 1923

£480.00

SKU: 5713

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Resting, 1931

£675.00

SKU: 5714

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Barges, (BPL 6)

£545.00

SKU: 5711

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Hatteras wreck, circa 1950 (BPL 626)

£250.00

SKU: 5477

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Plot 3 (BPL ?)

£1,300.00

ARCHIVED WORKS

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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Breaking up the old barge
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Chalfont St. Giles
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Hampstead Heath
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

St Paul’s Cathedral
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Toulon Washerwomen
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Vegetable Seller, Toulon
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SKU: 11806

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Grape Harvest
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SKU: 11805

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Dawn in the Train to Mostar
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Genoa, Italy
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Treading Grapes
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The London Docks
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Singing, BPL 723 1957
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SKU: 9691

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Driftwood, BPL 692
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SKU: 9115

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Bridge at Mostar
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SKU: 9116

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Caledonian Market
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SKU: 8700

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Sand Grass, BPL 704
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SKU: 8702

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Low Tide, BPL 706
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SKU: 8703

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Sand Dunes, BPL 708
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SKU: 8698

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Wrecked Boat, BPL 695
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Blueberries, BPL 698
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SKU: 8639

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Where Land Meets Sea
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SKU: 8437

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Mother with child, preparation for engraving
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SKU: 7747

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Man at a workbench
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Cork Trees Provence, circa 1920’s
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SKU: 7749

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Study of corn stock harvest, circa 1941
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SKU: 7368

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Odyssey (BPL 773) 1969
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Gulls and flowering yucca (BPL)
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SKU: 6114

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

When I Consider the Heavens, Psalms (BPL 644), 1952
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

They That Go Down To The Sea (BPL 657), Psalms, 1952
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Washing clothes Corsica (BPL258), 1934
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SKU: 5846

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Umbrella menders Toulon (BPL 28 ), 1926
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Breaking Camp (BPL192), 1931
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SKU: 5836

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Mussel Gatherers Toulon – BPL 27
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Boston Cod (BPL143)
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SKU: 5842

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Quahaug Raker (BPL679), circa 1953
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SKU: 5843

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Trillium (BPL 522)
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SKU: 5710

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

As the Fire Burneth, Psalms, BPL 654, 1951/52
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SKU: 5470

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Dance (BPL 725), 1957
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SKU: 5471

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Top Potential (BPL 744) circa 1961
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SKU: 5458

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

BPL 682 Blue Fish
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SKU: 5370

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

(BPL 648), Psalms 1952
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SKU: 5315

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The composer (BPL 724)
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Fishing (Thoreau-River) BPL 740