Modern British Prints
Hover over the painting to magnify (there may be an initial delay while the magnified image is loaded)Clare Leighton (1898-1989):
Watchers Of The Sky (BPL 719), 1955
Framed (ref: 5464)
Original woodblock (cancelled)
6 x 4 in. (15.5 x 10.2 cm)
See all works by Clare Leighton plate woodblock work Science, Technology and Industry
Provenance: The Artist's Estate
Watchers of the Sky was commissioned as an illustration for Helen Plotz's 'Imagination's Other Place: Poems of Science and Mathematics', New York, thomas Y Crowell, 1955.
Other titles by Plotz include 'Untune the Sky', (1957)
