Lot 39: GRAHAM BARRY CLILVERD ETCHING

Graham Barry Clilverd (1883-1959) "Hurley on Thames, The Old Bell inn" Engraving. Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. Measures 8 1/4"x10 1/4"x.50". Weight 1 pd. PROVENANCE: A Private Charleston SC Estate. British architectural painter, engraver and etcher, Graham Barry Clilverd studied in London at the Central Arts School. He first exhibited his art around 1906 and by 1910 his paintings were annually shown at such major institutions as the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and at the Paris Salon. Graham Clilverd served as a camouflage artist from 1916-1918 during World War I. Graham Clilverd's first published drypoint engravings and etchings date from 1929. During the following eight years he created forty-nine prints dealing with architectural subjects in Britain, Italy, France and Belgium. All were published in London by Jas. Connell & Sons in editions ranging from sixty to one hundred and fifty impressions. Graham Barry Clilverd's great architectural art earned him election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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