Urban Detail

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)

Oil on canvas

1963

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Thailand
    City: Bangkok
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    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.
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  • Details
    Artist
    Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999)
    Title
    Urban Detail
    Date
    1963
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 64.00 cm, width: 76.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from the New Art Centre, July 1970
    Inscription
    bl: Clough
    GAC number
    8979