Artist

Pratt, Claire

Title

Dante and Beatrice

Technique

woodcut

Date

1967

Dimensions

29.2cm height x 45.7cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

2013.6.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of Richard Cavell

Mildred Claire Pratt, (18 March 1921 – 5 April 1995), was a Canadian artist, poet and editor who published as Claire Pratt. She was the daughter of Viola Whitney (a writer and editor of the magazine World Friends) and E.J. Pratt, a noted poet and educator. In 1971 she published Silent Ancestors, a genealogical essay subtitled "The Forebears of E.J. Pratt," a tribute to the descendants of the Pratt family who immigrated to Newfoundland from Yorkshire. As an artist Claire preferred working with woodcuts. Her graphic art was exhibited in shows across Canada, in the United States and in Europe. Claire's work was also stimulated by her father's poetry. Many of her Christmas cards featured excerpts from his poems, while other works explored the themes and imagery of E.J. Pratt's work. http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/cpratt/index.htm http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/cpratt/da46.pdf