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The Art of Harry Clarke

 

 

Harry Clarke (1889-1931) was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement and is best known for his stained glass designs and book illustrations. In respect of his book illustrations, he is one of the artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration.

 

The Harry Clarke Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes art images from some of Clarke's seminal work. As a valuable reference resource, options are also provided for purchasing a range of gifts, including reproduction prints, posters and greeting cards.

 

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen was his first published work, although he had previously been working on illustrations to accompany Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner - work which had been destroyed in Dublin's devastating 1916 Easter Uprising. A number of commissions followed Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen , including The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault and his contributions to Tales of Mystery and Imagination - a project that established his stellar reputation as an illustrator.

 

Above, we show a vintage

photograph of Harry Clarke

 

His second to last project, Faust, is considered his most important as it is a precursor to the evocative psychedelic imagery

that has come to be associated with artwork from the 1960s. Selected Poems of Algernon Swinburne was his final

commission and, due to the licentious nature of Clarke's illustrations, that title was banned in Ireland.

 

We invite you to take the time to peruse the wonderful artwork from Harry Clarke that is included in the Collection - to view images from any one of Clarke's suites listed below, simply 'click' on the hyperlinks embedded within the titles and

the images.

 

 

Illustrations prepared for

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

3 images

Fairy Tales by

Hans Christian Andersen

40 images

Stained Glass commission

to accompany Queens

9 images

The Year's at the Spring

24 images

 

 

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

24 images

Tales of Mystery and

Imagination

32 images

Faust

22 images

Selected Poems of

Algernon Swinburne

11 images

 

 

 

 

 

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