Harry+Clarke+1890-1931

A little known but highly individualistic craftsman in the Art Nouveau stream was the imaginative and erudite Irishman, Harry Clarke Abandoning an early interest in medicine, at sixteen he became apprenticed to his father, who controlled a large and reputable stained glass firm in Dublin. Upon resuming his artistic studies, Clarke won gold medals in three consecutive years and in 1913 was commended by such established artists and teachers as Walter Crane and Byam Shaw. He was awarded a traveling scholarship to study the cathedral windows of the Ile de France. Examples of his own subsequent work can be found in many churches in Eire, England, Wales, Australia and Africa. He designed textiles in addition to book illustration. His style ranged from the bizarre fantasy, verging on horror, of his Beardsleyesque patterns for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination or Goethe's Faust to the delicacy and orderliness of his fresh conception of Perrault's fairy tales. Clarke's rich and versatile talent was destroyed by tuberculosis, for he died in Switzerland at the premature age of forty.

Let him have his head cut off!
Hans Christian Anderson BRENTANO'S 1916

Have you really the courage to go into the wide world with me? asked the chimney sweep.
Hans Christian Anderson BRENTANO'S 1916

On the grave of the Prince's father there grew a rosebush.
Hans Christian Anderson BRENTANO'S 1916

Kay and the Snow Queen.
Hans Christian Anderson BRENTANO'S 1916