Graham Clarke (b.1941) - Framed 20th Century Etching Buttercup Joe

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Description

An original coloured etching by Graham Clarke (b.1941), depicting the rural goings on at Buttercup Farm. A menagerie of animals and figures sprawl across the scene, filling the farm's outbuildings and shelters. The artwork has been well presented in a slim gilt frame, set within an arched double card mount. Signed in pencil to the lower margin and edition (277/400) below plate lines. On wove.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age, including some discolouration to the print paper and card mount.

Size

38 x 56cm (15" x 22")
Framed Size: 56 x 74.5cm (22" x 29.3")

Collection Information

Graham Clarke is one of Britain's most popular and best-selling printmakers, and has created hundreds of images depicting English rural life. Clarke's work has gained admiration for his revival of hand-coloured prints in the tradition of Thomas Rowlandson. His famous 'arched top' etchings, with which Graham Clarke established a widely successful reputation in Britain and overseas, came to public attention in 1973 when he first exhibited in London at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show.

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Artist Biography

Born in 1941, printmaker Graham Clarke was educated at Beckenham Art School, and then at the Royal College of Art where he specialised in illustration and printmaking, and pursued his interest in calligraphy. With encouragement from Edward Bawden, Clarke began refining an individual aesthetic, printing traditional landscapes marked by a sense of locality and genre. Graduating in 1964, he benefited from the print boom of the decade and, with commissions from Editions Alecto and the London Transport Publicity Department, a promising career was launched. The publication in 1969 of his first hand-printed "livre d'artiste", Balyn and Balan, won recognition from the most influential patron and connoisseur of the day, Kenneth Clark.

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SKU sm679
Artist Graham Clarke (b.1941)
Date 20th Century
Dimensions 38 x 56cm
Medium Etching
Style Realism
Subject Village
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