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Clare LeightonEarly 20th Century Wuthering Heights Genre Woodcut -- Death of Earnshaw #28/30circa 1930
circa 1930
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Wonderful genre woodcut of a scene from Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" titled "Death of Earnshaw" by Clare Leighton (British/American, 1898 - 1988), circa 1930. Numbered 28/30 and title lower left edge. Signed lower right hand edge. Presented in new mat. Image size: 7"H x 5"W
Artist Clare Leighton produced these 12 dramatic, brooding illustrations to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in 1931. They are said to have inspired a set designer for the 1939 film version of the novel starring Laurence Olivier.
Clare Veronica Hope Leighton — engraver and writer — was born in London, England on April 12, 1898 and died in 1988, probably while residing in Woodbury, CT. Leighton immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a citizen in 1945. Her oeuvre consists of market scenes, genre, docks, woodcuts, and wood engravings. Leighton studied at the Slade School of the University of London, and earned an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
Leighton was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City; an academician of the National Academy of Design in New York City; a fellow of the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers in London; and the Society of American Graphic Artists. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Boston Public Library held a major retrospective in 1977.
Leighton's work is represented in the collections of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the Art Institute of Chicago in IL; the Cleveland Museum of Art in OH; the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, AL; the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, FL; the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL; the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, GA; the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; the Baltimore Museum of Art in MD; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN; the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Loretto, PA; and the Print Club of Albany in NY.
- Creator:Clare Leighton (1898-1989, British)
- Creation Year:circa 1930
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 0.33 in (8.39 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: D79751stDibs: LU54210686752
Clare Leighton
Born in London, England, Clare Leighton executed her first wood engraving in 1922 while enrolled at the Central School of Art and Design in London. A year later, her engravings were shown in the Society of Wood Engraver's annual exhibition, and she began to receive critical attention. At the onset of the Second World War, she moved to America. In 1943, Leighton taught at Duke University and eventually settled in Woodbury, Connecticut, where she worked until the late 80s. Leighton's prints show people engaged in various types of work. During her extensive career, Leighton carved more than 900 woodblocks and designed numerous book illustrations, bookplates, engravings, illustrations, and mosaics and stained glass windows. Although known primarily for her work as a printmaker, she was the author of seven books.
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