Dark Garland

Location

Country: Australia
City: Canberra
Place: High Commission

Prunella Clough studied art at Chelsea School of Art where Henry Moore was one of her tutors. After the war she studied at Camberwell College of Art until 1949, and held her first solo exhibition at the Leger Gallery, London in 1947. In the 1950s, aware of the drabness of post-war Britain, her paintings reflected a preoccupation with modern landscape and machinery. In the 1960s, Clough regularly exhibited her increasingly abstract paintings and prints in solo and group shows, notably at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1960), the Serpentine Gallery (1976) and the Camden Arts Centre (1996). In 1999, the year of her death, Clough was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting, an official recognition of a lifetime’s work that was long overdue. A touring retrospective of her work was held at Tate Britain in 2007; and in 2016, a solo exhibition was held at The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.

Places

Subjects

abstract, flower

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)

Title

Dark Garland

Date

1992

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 182.50 cm, width: 101.30 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Annely Juda Fine Art, October 1996

Inscription

verso tc: Clough

GAC number

17017