Featured Artist
Clare Leighton
Song of Praise to the Dead Hog
(20th cent.)
Clare Leighton (1899-1989), was a British/American illustrator, engraver, and author of books on rural life.
She is best known for her illustrations of agrarian life in England, Europe and the North American South. Pictured here is her woodcut “Song of Praise to the Dead Hog.”
Leighton was a leader in the revival of wood engraving in Britain, she then immigrated to the United States in 1939 and taught at Duke University in the 1940’s.
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