Hilary Pyle recounts the career of Margaret Clarke, an artist of strength and originality with a firm grounding in the academic tradition
In November, the National Library added to its collection a series of five posters designed by Margaret Clarke in 1930 for the Empire Marketing Board. Clarke had been offered the poster commission as a result of the insistence of the High Commissioner for the Irish Free State, a member of the EMB, John Dulanty, that Irish artists, rather than British – as was proposed – should be engaged to promote the Free State’s participation in cross-channel trade
