Artist Info
Edna Clarke Hall
Edna Clarke Hall (née Waugh; 29 June 1879 – 16 November 1979) was a watercolour artist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman who is mainly known for her many illustrations to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
She was a student at the Slade in the 1890s, she was of the same generation of artists as Gwen and Augustus John, William Orpen and Ambrose McEvoy. She exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in London.
She won many prizes and certificates for her drawings and in 1897 was awarded a Slade scholarship. Although a couple of oil paintings, painted under Gwen John's guidance, exist, Edna's favoured medium as a painter was watercolour.