Editing Harry Clarke (section)

==Career==
[[File:Illustration for 'If I Had a Broomstick' in The Year's at the Spring.png|thumb|upright=0.6|Illustration for ''The year's at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry'' (1920)]]

===Book illustration===
Clarke briefly moved to London to seek work as a book illustrator. Picked up by London publisher [[Harrap]],<ref name="Hugh Lane" /> he started with two commissions which were never completed: [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]'s ''[[The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]]'' (much of his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 [[Easter Rising]] in Dublin) and an illustrated edition of [[Alexander Pope]]'s ''[[The Rape of the Lock]]''.<ref name="Costigan and Cullen">{{cite book|last1=Costigan|first1=Lucy|last2=Cullen|first2=Michael|title=Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke|date=2010|publisher=The History Press Ireland|location=Dublin|isbn=9781845889715}}</ref>

Clarke was commissioned by the Committee of the Irish National War Memorial<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ireland's memorial records 1914-1918: being the names of Irishmen who fell in the Great European War, 1914-1918. Volume five. Ker to M'Gil|url=https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/2j62sb32c?locale=it|access-date=2 February 2022|website=Digital Collections: The Library of Trinity College Dublin}}</ref> in 1919 to illustrate the ''[[Ireland's Memorial Records 1914-1918]],'' a roll of honour for the 49,435 Irish who died during [[World War I]]. Illustrations for the 8 volumes were completed in 1922 and published in 1923, and a set is on display in the [[Irish National War Memorial Gardens]]. 100 copies of the book were distributed to cathedrals and libraries across Ireland and to other Allied countries. Each page features a large four-sided border of black and white illustrations by Clarke.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Helmers|first=Marguerite|date=12 December 2015|title=Harry Clarke's first World War|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/harry-clarke-s-first-world-war-1.2463153|access-date=2 February 2022|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>

Difficulties with these projects made ''Fairy Tales by [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'' his first printed work, in 1916. It included 16 colour plates and more than 24 [[halftone]] illustrations. This was followed by illustrations for an edition of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'': the first version of that title was restricted to halftone illustrations, while a second with eight colour plates and more than 24 halftone images was published in 1923.<ref name="Costigan and Cullen"/>

This 1923 edition made his reputation as a book illustrator, during the golden age of gift-book illustration in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It was followed by editions of ''The Years at the Spring'', with 12 colour plates and more than 14 monotone images; ([[Lettice D'Oyly Walters]], ed., 1920), [[Charles Perrault]]'s ''Fairy Tales of Perrault'', and [[Goethe's Faust]], with eight colour plates and more than 70 halftone and [[duotone]] images (New York: Hartsdale House, 1925). The last of these is his most famous work, prefiguring the imagery of 1960s [[psychedelia]].<ref name="Costigan and Cullen" /> Two of his most sought-after titles are promotional booklets for [[Jameson Irish Whiskey]]: ''A History of a Great House'' (1924, and subsequent reprints) and ''Elixir of Life'' (1925), which was written by Geofrey Warren. His final book, ''Selected Poems of [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]]'', was published in 1928.<ref name="Andrews and White" />

===Stained glass===
{{main|Stained glass windows by Harry Clarke}}
[[File:Genova-Windows P8.JPG|thumb|upright=1|[[Geneva Window]], 1930]]

Clarke produced more than 130 windows; he and his brother Walter had taken over his father's studio after his death in 1921.<ref name="Andrews and White" /> His glass is distinguished by the finesse of its drawing and his use of rich colours, and innovative integration of the window leading as part of the overall design, originally inspired by an early visit to see the stained glass of the [[Cathedral of Chartres]]. He was especially fond of deep blues. Clarke's use of heavy lines in his black-and-white book illustrations echoes his glass techniques.<ref name="Costigan and Cullen" />

Clarke's stained glass work includes many religious windows, but also much secular stained glass. Highlights of the former include his first and finest work - the 11 windows of the [[Honan Chapel]] in [[University College Cork]];<ref>{{cite book |last=De Breffny |first=Brian |author-link= |date=1983 |title=Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopedia |url= |location=London |publisher=Thames and Hudson |page=65 |isbn=}}</ref> of the latter, a window illustrating [[John Keats]]' ''[[The Eve of St. Agnes]]'' (now in the [[Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery]] in Dublin) and the ''[[Geneva Window]]'', created for the [[Centre William Rappard]] in Geneva, Switzerland (now in the [[Wolfsonian-FIU|Wolfsonian Museum]], Miami, Florida, US).<ref name="Costigan and Cullen" /> Perhaps his most seen works were the windows he made for [[Bewley's|Bewley's Café]] on Dublin's [[Grafton Street, Dublin|Grafton Street]],<ref name="Andrews and White" /> which were subject to court proceedings in 2022 in a dispute between landlord and tenant over ownership, as ''[[RGRE v Bewley's]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesspost.ie/news/judgment-on-bewleys-harry-clarke-windows-is-delayed/|title=Judgment on Bewley's Harry Clarke windows is delayed|website=Business Post}}</ref>