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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
Ellen and Her Children (BPL578), 1944
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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
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Height – 5cm x Width – 10cm
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate
Literature: Clare Leighton, An Exhibition ….Amercan Sheaves English Seed Corn…., The Boston Public Library, p 22.
Leightons
epic project Psalms. (The Book of Psalms [and] The First Psalm of
David, the Book of Proverbs [and] The Book of Ecclesiastes) was
published by Doubleday, 1952. This image had particular poignancy for
Leighton who devoted much of her life to teaching art to children who –
by virtue of their social background – would not normally have had
access to an education in art. Hear Ye Children was published in an
edition of 75 from this original (now cancelled) block. It is recorded
as no. 654 in the Boston Public Library catalogue of Leighton’s work
Clare
Leighton was an artist, writer and wood engraver, best known for her
illustrated books recording English rural life (The Farmer’s Year, 1933,
Four Hedges, 1935), and her recording of life in Amercia where she
emigrated to in 1939. Southern Harvest, 1942 New England
Industries,1952, (produced for Wedgwood) are amongst the most
celebrated and poignant records of American rural life of their period.
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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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