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Clare Leighton - The Malthouse

Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)

The Malthouse, (BPL 1), 1923

£480.00

SKU: 5712
Wood engraving. Signed and titled by the artist’s nephew. Proof.
Presentation: folio
Provenance: The Artist’s Estate; Private collection

Size: 18cm x 12.5cm

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Wood engraving, signed titled and printed by artist’s nephew from the original block.
This was Leighhton’s second wood engraving and provide an auspicious start to her career: The second block, of a Bishop’s Stortford mauthouse, determinded my future.   Timidly I sent the print to an exhibition, where, to my amazement, it was accepted and hung.  Yet more to my amazement , it was purchased by Eric Gill …… (see Clare Leighton, The Growth and Shaping of An Artist-Writer, p. 9, Published by The Estate of Clare Leighton) 
The edition of the Malthouse  given in the BPL catalogue is 50, and dated 1923 – whether the whole edition was actually printed or signed is unknown.  The Malthouse in question was in Bishops Stortford, not so far from The Leightons’ rented summer retreat at Lowestoft.

The Malthouse  was later published as plate I in Woodcuts: Examples of the Work of Clare Leighton.  by Longmans, Green & Co. in 1930.

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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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