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Detail of Madonna and Child at Church of the Assumption, Bride Street, in Wexford, Ireland. Harry Clarke (1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.He produced more than 130 stained glass windows, he and his brother Walter having taken over his father's studio after his death in 1921. [1]
Henry Patrick Clarke was born on 17 March 1889, the younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid (née MacGonigal) Clarke. [1] Joshua Clarke was a church decorator who moved to Dublin from Leeds in 1877 and started a decorating business, Joshua Clarke & Sons, which later incorporated a stained glass division.
They were described by art critic Herbert Read as "the geometry of fear sculptors". [4] He was commissioned to create the cross of nails for Coventry Cathedral and also worked on three of the nave windows between 1957 and 1962. [5] In 1965 he had a retrospective at The Redfern Gallery, London and his work is also held at the Tate Gallery. [6]
Clarke's original modello, 1914. Corning Museum of Glass, New York. [3] Watercolour, pen, and ink on paper, 73 x 23 cm. Gobnait was born in County Clare but moved for a time the island of Inisheer, where she founded a church. Clarke visited the island often in the 1900s and later honeymooned there. According to the art historian Patricia Rogers ...
Harry Clarke brought his expertise in working in fine decorative detail in glass to his book illustrations, most notably in the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe where he is compared to Aubrey Beardsley and which are featured in the film and paralleled with German Expressionist cinema of the time.
Brian Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to Edward Ord Clarke, a coal miner, and Lilian Clarke (née Whitehead), a cotton spinner. [25] Raised in a family familiar with Spiritualism – his maternal grandmother was a notable local medium – Clarke attended a Spiritualist Lyceum throughout his childhood [26] and was considered a 'sensitive', gaining a reputation locally as a 'boy medium'.
Carey Clarke was born in Donegal in 1936 as the only child of Protestant, middle-class parents. [1] He was educated at St Andrew's College in Dublin, [1] [2] and from 1954 to 1959 attended The National College of Art there, with further studies at the Salzburg Summer school of Fine Art under Emilio Vedova (1969), [3] with Annigoni in Florence (1976–77) [3] and at Slade School in London (1991).
He quickly achieved high eminence in his field with his business Ballantine and Allan, and got the contract for painting the windows of the House of Lords through a public competition. His 1845 book A treatise of Stained Glass became a standard work. His son, Alexander (1841–1906), later joined his stained-glass window business. [1]