Harry Clarke & John Austen

After their joint exibition with Odle at the St George’s Gallery in 1925, both John Austen & Harry Clarke tried to get commissions for Alan. In 1928 Austen introduced Alan to his agency Sharmid, run by the Misses Sharman & Middleton. He also tried to interest the publisher Geoffrey Bles, who had published Austen’s Manon Lescault in 1928, in Odle’s work, but to no avail. On 18th November 1930 Clarke received a letter from Sharmid saying they had been unable to obtain a commission for Odle to illustrate Against the Grain (A Rebour) by J. K. Huysmans. So even though he was terminally ill at the time (he died 2 months later) he was still trying to obtain work for his friend.


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