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Description

LIMITED EDITION DRYPOINT ON COPPER
Hand tinted

ARTIST Frank Vernon Martin (1921-2005)

TITLE Double Portrait of the Actress Ina Claire
(3/40)

Frank Martin was a printmaker, illustrator and teacher, born in Dulwich, southeast London. He read history at Oxford University and then studied at St Martin’s School of Art. After army service in World War 2 he gradually established himself as a freelance artist, although he taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts from 1953-1980. He illustrated many books, including Charles Lamb’s Essays, 1963 and William Hazlitt’s Essays, 1964. From 1966 he turned his attention to a long series of prints of Hollywood actresses of the silent film era.

Ina Claire was born Ina Fagan of Irish descent. She was born on October 15th, 1893 in Washington, DC and died on February 21st, 1985 in San Francisco. She began her career appearing in vaudeville. She performed on Broadway in the musicals ‘Jumping Jupiter’ and ‘The Quaker Girl’ (both 1911). She starred on Broadway in plays by some of the leading comic dramatists of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, including the role of Lady George Grayston in W. Somerset Maughan’s ‘Our Betters’ (1928). Her last stage appearance was as Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer in
T. S. Elliot’s ‘The Confidential Clerk’ (1954).
(Number 193 in Hollywood-Continental)

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