[Hall, Edna Clarke- Superb Watercolor & Gouache Painting] "Three Ears of Corn

1925. Offered here is a wonderful watercolour, gouache and ink painting by the renowned British painter Edna Clarke Hall (1879ñ1979), on paper. Image size:14 3/4 x 11 inches inches. A luminous companion ìpoem pictureî to the item above, presenting a seated nude set against wind-swept fields of ochre and blue, counterbalanced by a flowing blue drapery. Two cartouche-like panels of handwritten verse are integrated directly into the design, reinforcing Clarke Hallís practice of treating poetry as a compositional element rather than a caption. The granular surface, opaque highlights, and linear ink drawing indicate the same mixed-media methodóink with watercolour and gouacheóseen in comparable documented works. Unsigned, but purchased from the same estate of the similar Clarke Hall painting (above listing) which is signed. Fine condition.

Edna Clarke Hall was trained at the Slade School of Art in London, entering in her mid-teens, and went on to develop one of the most distinctive bodies of imaginative and symbolic work on paper in Britain during the early 20th century. She is best known for her visionary illustrations to Wuthering Heights and for highly personal, symbolic figure studies that often merge image and poetry. Her work is widely represented in major public collections, most notably at Tate in London, where she is strongly held, underscoring her institutional standing and lasting scholarly interest.

Poem text:

Three ears of corn
Did once adorn
One little room
where you were born

To bring you gold
Of joy untold
To every grain
A hundred-fold.