Tree in Countryside / Illustration for Olives of Endless Age
Datec. 1928
Artist
Clare Leighton
(American printmaker, illustrator, and author, 1898–1989, born in England)
Illustration CitationOlives of Endless Age: Being a Study of this Distracted World and its Need of Unity, by H. N. Brailsford (London: Harper & Bros., 1928)
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 1 9/16 × 2 in. (4 × 5.1 cm)
support: 8 11/16 × 5 15/16 in. (22.1 × 15.1 cm)
support: 8 11/16 × 5 15/16 in. (22.1 × 15.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. William Waldron, 1973
Object number1973-125
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextPrintmaker Claire Leighton came to the United States from England in 1939. A specialist in wood engraving, she illustrated over 65 books. Her friendship with H. N. Brailsford, editor of the socialist New Leader and advocate for the working classes, led to her illustration of his 1928 book Olives of Endless Ages, a plea for European unity organized under the League of Nations. The style of this landscape is typical of Leighton's work, with its intense black tones and simplified natural forms.
Thomas Willoughby Nason
1961
