#clareleighton

[curiouscatalog]

From: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989. Country matters. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1937

DA110 .L34

#woman #flowers #vegetables #harvest #england #countrylife #1930s #early20thcentury #woodengraving #clareleighton #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraryofva

[simon-martin]

THE CANADIAN LUMBER CAMP: These two wintery snow scenes are part of a group of six large wood-engravings that the British printmaker Clare Leighton produced following a trip to Canada in the winter of 1930-31. She made a week-long visit to a remote French-Canadian lumber camp in the Laurentian Mountains north of Ottawa on the Quebec-Ontario border, where she produced drawings of lumberjacks at work in snowy woodland, and then translated them into engravings cut and printed from end-grain. Her ability to use wood-engraving to so elegantly convey the extraordinary monochrome light of a snow scene is remarkable; with a balance of silhouetted figures, glistening white snow and greyscale shadows. I find it very poetic as a project: the whole thing is about the cutting and transportation of timber, expressed through a medium that required the cutting and engraving of wood - on paper which was itself the end result of the whole thing. The artist described them to a friend while still executing the blocks as “by far the best things I’ve done.” These are ‘Breaking Camp’ and ‘Landing’ from the English edition - in the 1939 Leighton moved permanently to the USA, and so many of her prints are in public institutions there. For example, these are in the collections of @auburnu @terraamericanart @brit_visualarts @artinstitutechi @clevelandmuseumofart @themintmuseum and @britishmuseum #woodengraving #clareleighton #canada #canadianart #snow #lumbercamp #printmaking (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI-XXGHlvtQ/?igshid=6uzf59hm6dx0

#woodengraving #clareleighton #canada #canadianart #snow #lumbercamp #printmaking

[thetroutgallery-blog]

Staff members at the Trout enjoy the exhibitions too! This week Stephanie Keifer, Senior Administrator for the Trout, picked out her favorite work from the past exhibitions. She enjoyed "Exploring the Senses: Beyond the Frame," an exhibit from 2012. Her favorite work was "July: Cottage Gardens" by Clare Leighton. Come to the Trout to find your favorite work, it may be on exhibit right now!

"July: Cottage Gardens," by Clare Leighton, 1933

#july cottagegardens #cottagegardens #print #art #arthistory #staffpick #clareleighton #printmaking #museum #troutgallery #dickinsoncollege

[cumbrianblues]

A wet wild day here in Cumbria.... image a wood engraving by Clare Leighton from her book 'Where Land Meets Sea, The Tide Line of Cape Cod' #clareleighton

#clareleighton

[kuti]

aprilsowingclareleighton

#april #sowing #grain #clareleighton #seed #agriculture

[curiouscatalog]

From: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989. Country matters. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1937

DA110 .L34

#girl #flowers #girlwithflowers #england #countrylife #1930s #early20thcentury #woodengraving #clareleighton #rarebooks #specialcollections #libaryofva

[curiouscatalog]

From: Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989. Country matters. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1937

DA110 .L34

#countryfair #tents #carnivalrides #england #countrylife #1930s #early20thcentury #rural #woodengraving #clareleighton #rarebooks #specialcollections #libraryofva