The Fantastic Flowers of Clarice Cliff: A Celebration of Her Floral Designs

by Leonard Griffin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.47

  Clarice Cliff's Bizarre ceramics, with their spectacular colors and innovative Art Deco shapes, are avidly collected. Here, expert Leonard Griffin explores Cliff's lifelong passion for flowers and shows how many of her most popular designs were inspired by that love.When Cliff (1899-1972) married in 1940, she moved to an Arts and Crafts home in the English countryside with a five-acre garden. There, she learned how to grow the flowers her Bizarre girls had been painting on her pottery. Her delight in gardening is revealed here in never-before-published extracts from Cliff's personal letters, and in her own gorgeous photographs of her garden, reproduced from the original transparencies for the first time.A wealth of colorplates display Cliff's vibrant works. With a glossary and directory of floral designs, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the private world of one of the 20th century's most important ceramic artists.