Prunella Clough

1919–1999

Prunella Clough, ‘Wire and Demolition’ 1982
Wire and Demolition 1982
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In Tate Modern

In the Studio: The Disappearing Figure: Art after Catastrophe

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1950

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Biography

Prunella Clough (11 November 1919 – 26 December 1999) was a prominent British artist. She is known mostly for her paintings, though she also made prints and created assemblages of collected objects.

"Her subjects are closely observed details and scenes from the landscape. The images are combined and filtered through memory, and evolve through a slow process of layering and re-working."

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Artworks

Prunella Clough, ‘Wire and Demolition’ 1982

Prunella Clough Wire and Demolition

1982
T03451
Prunella Clough, ‘Broken Gates’ 1982

Prunella Clough Broken Gates

1982
T07318
Prunella Clough, ‘Pimentoes’ 1954

Prunella Clough Pimentoes

1954
View by appointment P07913
Prunella Clough, ‘False Flower’ 1993

Prunella Clough False Flower

1993
T07116
Prunella Clough, ‘Float’ 1950

Prunella Clough Float

1950
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Prunella Clough, ‘Geological Landscape’ 1949

Prunella Clough Geological Landscape

1949
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Prunella Clough, ‘Man Hosing Metal Fish Boxes’ 1951

Prunella Clough Man Hosing Metal Fish Boxes

1951
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T06673
Prunella Clough, ‘Cooling Tower II’ 1958

Prunella Clough Cooling Tower II

1958
T00376
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Film and audio
Look Closer

Look Again: The Visual Language of Prunella Clough

Decode Prunella Clough's artworks through the photographs and notes in her archive

Features

Cutting from the Daily Express reporting the student occupation of the Hornsey College of Art in May 1968 photography depicting female students behing gates on which is hung a banner
Tate Etc

Journeys into the past: Behind the curtain

Tate Archive 40th Anniversary Special: highlights from artists’ archives acquired in recent years are selected by family, friends and admirers

Press Release

Prunella Clough

26 Feb 2007
Press related to past exhibition of Prunella Cloughone one of the most interesting and significant British painters of the post-war ...

Sketches, letters, etc.

Prunella Clough, ‘Colour photograph of blue and pink plastic chairs stacked up outside a shop’ [1990s]

Prunella Clough Colour photograph of blue and pink plastic chairs stacked up outside a shop

[1990s]
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Prunella Clough, ‘Black and white photograph of the side of a curved tank, possibly an oil tanker or similar’ [1950s]

Prunella Clough Black and white photograph of the side of a curved tank, possibly an oil tanker or similar

[1950s]
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Prunella Clough, ‘Colour postcard reproduction of Prunella Clough’s painting ‘Remembering Branches’’ 1996

Prunella Clough Colour postcard reproduction of Prunella Clough’s painting ‘Remembering Branches’

1996
View by appointment TGA 200511/4/3/34/8
Prunella Clough, ‘Worked postcard’ [1990s]

Prunella Clough Worked postcard

[1990s]
View by appointment TGA 200511/3/1/2/14
Prunella Clough, ‘Worked postcard’ [1990s]

Prunella Clough Worked postcard

[1990s]
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Prunella Clough, ‘Notebook containing notes for paintings’ [c.1987]

Prunella Clough Notebook containing notes for paintings

[c.1987]
View by appointment TGA 200511/2/1/12
Prunella Clough, ‘Photograph album’ [1920s–1950s]

Prunella Clough Photograph album

[1920s–1950s]
TGA 200511/4/3/1
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Related art terms

Abstract expressionism Abstraction-Création Aesthetic movement Art Concret Art nouveau Artists’ International Association Arts and crafts movement Baroque Bauhaus Birmingham Group Bloomsbury British impressionism British Surrealism British War Art Camden Town Group Constructivism Analytical cubism Dada Dutch Golden Age painting Euston Road School Expressionism Fauvism Feminist art High Renaissance Impressionism Japonisme London Group Mannerist Nabis, Les Naive Neo-romanticism New English Art Club Northern Renaissance Objective abstraction Pittura metafisica (metaphysical art) Post-impressionism Realism Realism Renaissance Rococo Romanticism Society of Painters in Tempera St Ives School Surrealism Systems Group Vorticism

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