Unsung Heroines
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SOLDClare Leighton (1898-1989):
In the Beginning, BPL 716 1955
Framed (ref: 9703)
Original woodblock, cancelled
See all works by Clare Leighton woodblock allegory women 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: The Artist's Estate
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.352.
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.
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.
In the Beginning was originally printed in an edition of 50 as part of Helen Plotz, Imagination's Other Place: Poems of Science and Mathematics,( New York: Thomas Y. Crowell) 1955.
By the time of her death, Leighton had authored twelve books and made over 840 prints.
