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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

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

SKU: 5459
Original woodblock (cancelled)
1 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (3.7 x 8 cm)
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 3.7cm x Width – 8cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate

Alabama Barn, from which 50 woodcuts were editioned,  appeared as one of the illustrations in the celebrated 1942 Macmillan publication Southern Harvest in which Leighton gave  her graphic and written impressions of rural customs and agricultural rites that were still functioning in an increasingly industrialized South. 


As Caroline Hickman has written:
Clare Leighton (1898-1989) created timeless impressions of agrarian life in England and the American South even as she witnessed the devastation wrought by the world wars and observed economic, social, and political unrest on the two continents during the interwar years. At face value, her wood engravings depicting agrarian life appear not to relate to these tumultuous world events and seem a stalwart continuation of the English pastoral tradition. While her graphic work continued an idealized, even nostalgic view of rural life, it was also a rebuttal of specific contemporary circumstances. Leighton’s imagery, when read with her prose, is an intensely personal commentary on the foremost issues confronting mankind during her time war and mechanization, social and economic inequality, the gentrification of the countryside, and the spiritual poverty caused by these societal ills.

We are grateful to David Leighton and Caroline Hickman for assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Clare Leighton
Clare
Leighton
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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