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Clifford Wight - an extraordinary life: a talk by Julian Baker

Born and raised in Swindon in the late 19th century Clifford Wight was to lead an extraordinary adventurous life: emigrating to Canada as a Mountie before fighting in WWI. On the move to California and Mexico in the 1920s Wight reinvented himself as a sculptor in the company of iconic artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - becoming Rivera’s assistant to work on his revolutionary Frescos.

During the 1930s Wight was hounded out of America for being a Communist and with the outbreak of WWII fin
7.15pm - 8.30pm (approx)
Tickets: £5 (£3 library members) available from all Swindon Libraries.
Central Library, Regents Circus, Swindon, Wiltshire SN1 1QG
Tue 14 Apr 2015
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