Leighton, Clare, 1898-1989 (Nombre personal)

Hardy, T. The return of the native, 1929.

WW 1987 (Leighton, Clare; b. 1899)

Fielding, M. Mantle Fielding's dict. Amer. painters ... c1983 (Leighton, Clare; b. Apr. 12, 1901)

LC manual auth. cat. (hdg.: Leighton, Clare, 1899- ; usage: Clare Leighton; tel. call to author, 16mr77: author thinks Apr. 12, 1899, most accurate and prefers it)

Social Security Death Index, 1994 ed. (birth date, 12 Apr 1898; death date, 04 Nov 1989)

Info. from Pequot Library, Nov. 17, 1998 (Her diary, 1914: April 12, 1914, "my birthday-16 years old to-day" [i.e. b. April 12, 1898])

Wikipedia, November 26, 2018: Clare Leighton (born Clara Ellaline Hope Leighton on April 12, 1898 in London, England; taught at the National Academy of Design; worked as an illustrator; professional focus was wood-engraving; her ashes are buried in Waterbury, Connecticut) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Leighton