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Clive Branson

1907–1944

Still Life 1940
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Historic and Modern British Art

Biography

Clive Ali Chimmo Branson (1907 – 25 February 1944) was an English artist and poet, and an active communist in the 1930s. A number of his paintings are in the Tate Gallery. His wife was Noreen Branson (16 May 1910 – 25 October 2003). Their daughter is the artist Rosa Branson (born 1933).

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British Surrealism British War Art Artists’ International Association

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  • Portrait of a Worker

    Clive Branson
    c.1930
  • Selling the ‘Daily Worker’ outside Projectile Engineering Works

    Clive Branson
    1937
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art
  • Bombed Women and Searchlights

    Clive Branson
    1940
  • Blitz: Plane Flying

    Clive Branson
    1940
  • Still Life

    Clive Branson
    1940
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