Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

Barges, (BPL 6)

£545.00

SKU: 5714
Wood engraving. Signed and titled by the artist’s nephew. Proof.
Presentation:
folio

Size:
Height – 14cm x Width – 15.5cm

3 in stock

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate; Private collection

‘Barges’, Bishops Stortford (MH.10). Wood engraving. 1924.

Signed and printed by the Artist’s nephew from the original woodblock – Estate of Clare Leighton

Printed in an edition of 100.

Barges is amongst Leighton’s earliest work.  Writing of this print later in life Leighton commented: They were days of interpreting the world around me.  For the time being, economically secure with my earnings from teaching (at the RCA), I had not taken advantage of the accolade of the Eric Gill purchase (see The Malthouse).  In one was I was wondering free.  So I engraved early prints such as The Calf Auction, Barges and other scenes around me in the little market town of Bishops Startford for my own pleasure.

There were not very subtle prints.  I know that well.  I was not yet abole to realise the potential of this new medium.  More concerned with putting down on the wood the excitement of a design.  I did not trouble to think that I was choosing the easiest path.  I know now how overly black the prints were, and understood Belloc’s reproach of ‘the exaggeration of black’.  But i had to live through this uncertain phas.  And I have now come to realise that the most important element for the beginner that I most certainly was, must be the creative impulse that chronicles the emotion rather than the technical perfection, (see Clare Leighton, The Growth and Shaping of An Artist-Writer, p. 9, Published by The Estate of Clare Leighton).
Barges was later published by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1930 as Plate III of Woodcuts: Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton.

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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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