Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931)
Faust, 1925
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Descent Into The Maelstrom, Illustration from Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Harry Clarke, 1919
Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the albatross around my neck was hung!
Illustration by Harry Clarke for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Harry Clarke
A panel from Harry Clarke’s gorgeous stained glass window, completed in 1930 just before Clarke’s death, celebrating Irish literature, made to be presented by the Irish government to the League of Nations. But the Irish government got cold feet, perhaps because it had sexual tension in it, perhaps because Clarke was so gloriously sexual even when he’s being good, and eventually Clarke’s widow bought it back from the government, to rescue it from the darkness it was being kept in. It’s now in the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, and I stared at it for as long as I could when I was there before, reluctantly, moving on.
(Beneath it, not a great picture of the whole window, all 8 panels.)
This is where it starts: http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF013134/00001?search=clarke
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1923
by Edgar Allan Poe
illustration by Harry Clarke
Today’s Classic: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher
1. By Wilfried Sätty (1976)
2. By Harry Clarke in black and white (1919)
3. By Harry Clarke in color (1923)
4. By Arthur Rackham (1935)
5. By Aubrey Beardsley (1895)
Harry Clarke ~ The Year’s at the Spring ~ The Dead ~ 1920
“Honour has come back, as a king, to earth”
Tercer-Sol 