Henry Patrick Clarke was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement.
Harry Clarke
Commemorative plaque for Clarke at the Hof cemetery in Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland
A plaque marking Harry Clarke's Birthplace unveiled in March 2026 at 33 North Frederick Street, Dublin
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire an
Harry Clarke
…Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement. His work was influenced by both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. His stained glass was particularly informed by the French Symbolist movement…
William Morris's design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862
The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892 in his Golden Type inspired by the 15th-century printer Nicolas Jenson. This chapter from The Stones of Venice was a sort of manifesto for the Arts and Crafts movement.
Pugin's house "The Grange" in Ramsgate, from 1843. Its simplified Gothic Revival style, adapted to domestic building, helped shape the architecture of the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris, a designer and thinker who was a key influence on the Arts and Crafts movement