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Article: Carr takes the biscuit;The early work of Prunella Clough may surprise us now, but the real discovery is her friend David Carr
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 3, 1997
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EXHIBITIONS
A TOUCHING exhibition unites the diverse talents of Prunella
Clough and David Carr, both represented by paintings and drawings
from 1945-64. Clough is well-known and has an especially large
following among her fellow painters. Carr has no reputation at all.
Even before his death in 1968 he was an obscure artist, for he was
modest in his ambitions and diffident about showing his work. You
won't find his name in histories of modern British art, though he
has been included in one or two surveys of the Neo-Romanticism of
the 1940s. His manner was unlike Clough's, so one might ask why
Austin/Desmond are showing them together. There's a simple answer.
They were friends.
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