Prunella Clough
Prunella Clough (11 November 1919 – 26 December 1999) was a prominent British artist.
"Her subjects are closely observed details and scenes from the landscape. The images are combined and filtered through memory, and evolve through a slow process of layering and re-working."[1]
Background
Born on 11 November 1919 in Chelsea, London to an affluent upper-middle-class family, she was initially educated privately by her father, the poet Eric Taylor,[2] before enrolling at the Chelsea School of Art (now Chelsea College of Art and Design) in 1937. Her aunt was Irish designer Eileen Gray.[3]
Career
Apart from wartime service,[4] she painted full-time until her death in 1999, supplementing her income with lecturing posts at the Chelsea and Wimbledon Schools of Art.[5] Clough painted the industrial landscapes of post-WWII Britain.
Awards
- The City of London Midsummer Prize (1977)[6]
- The £30,000 Jerwood Prize for painting (1999)[7]
- She declined an OBE in 1968 and a CBE in 1979.
Selected exhibitions
- Leger Gallery (1947)
- Roland, Browse and Delblanco (1949)
- Leicester Galleries (1953)
- Whitechapel Gallery, London (1960) (this was her first retrospective)[8]
- Grosvenor Gallery (1964, 1968)
- Sheffield (1972)
- Serpentine (1976)
- Perth, Western Australia (1974)
- Edinburgh (1976)
- Aberdeen (1981)
- Hiroshima (1988)
- the Olympia (2004, retrospective)[9]
- Tate Gallery (2007, retrospective)[10]
Public collections
Death
She died on 26 December 1999, aged 80, following a battle with cancer.
Favourite quote
"Painting is like throwing oneself into the sea to learn to swim" (Édouard Manet) - often quoted in interviews by Clough
Sources
- Prunella Clough, Banks, R. (Ed.) (2003, London, Annely Juda Fine Art), ISBN 1-870280-99-7
References
- ^ Sunday Telegraph, Issue #2396, 13 May 2007, Arts Section, Graham-Dixon, A., Heart of Industry
- ^ Who's Who, 1971, p. 611, ISBN 0-7136-1140-5
- ^ Adams, Peter. Eileen Gray: A Biography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1987,p. 9.
- ^ Debrett's People of Today, 1992, p. 390, ISBN 1-870520-09-2
- ^ Prunella Clough, Tufnell, B. (Ed) (2007, London, Tate Publishing), ISBN 978-1-85437-699-2
- ^ Overview of Clough's achievements [ dead link ]
- ^ "The painting prize that got it right", The Telegraph dated 22 September 1999, published by Telegraph Media Group Limited. Article accessed on 23 November 2013.
- ^ Prunella Clough : a retrospective exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September - October 1960. Whitechapel Art Gallery. 1960. OCLC 10856536.
- ^ Artist WebSite
- ^ Tate Gallery exhibitions
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