The Harold James Cleworth Collection.
Automobiles! The Packard, the Auburn, the Duesenberg and even The Phaeton! Automotive enthusiasts around the World including celebrities and the wealthiest of collectors have spent a substantial amount of their hard-earned dollars on Harold Cleworth's vividly rendered original paintings, vintage and vintage enhanced lithographs, giclées and even posters of the cars they cherish. Harold Cleworth is the person they go to create these one-of-a-kind paintings. His artwork is world 
renown and he is highly regarded by collectors and patrons of both art and fine automobiles.
This Artist is the King of a genre he created. A prestigious automotive artist, he was born during World War II in the Industrial Center which was Northern England. He graduated from Manchester College of Art in 1967 and his artistic visions translated to a love of machinery of the growing industrial world around him.
His talents led him first to London and Decca Records where he captured the magnetism of legendary bands like The Who and the Rolling Stones in their infancy whose album covers he illustrated. Sunny California then beckoned a young Harold. The sleek designs of automotive creations he had always admired particularly captured his eye there and the “painter laureate of the car” (as christened by Auto Week magazine) emerged.
Over the course of his career, he has turned his “super-realist” paintings of masterful machines like the Phaeton, the Duisenberg and the Auburn into art that is beloved by appreciators of both art and cars.
His limited edition prints continue to grow in value, up to 800% over their initial cost. The investment in his automotive lithographs, giclées and posters continue to astonish collectors with prices that command more than 10 to 25 times their original cost in resale value.
An artist of far-reaching renown and importance, Harold James Cleworth not only creates original paintings for private customers but also manufactures posters for famous car exhibitions such as the Los Angeles and Chicago Auto Shows. Not only does he serve often as an honorary judge at the Newport Beach Concours d’Elegance but he is the namesake of an annual award there: the “Cleworth Award”. Classic Bugattis, Duesenbergs, and Ferraris - the most elite and luxurious machines of this age and the most beloved by collectors - have had their beautiful shapes committed to memory by Cleworth at galleries throughout California.
Perhaps the most famous of his super-realist renditions is the Mercedes black 300SL Gullwing. This particular rendering which was commissioned by San Francisco car dealer Richard Rubin, with its winged doors that rose from its sides like powerful Batman wings, was rendered by the artist with loving detail and became the top-selling automotive poster of all time.
Automotive Artist extraordinaire - Harold James Cleworth - is dedicated to creating new paintings for the most modern cars. He has been commissioned to illustrate automobiles manufactured by Saab, Isuzu, Ford, Chevrolet, and Lincoln Mercury. He has even created furniture out of crushed cars. With his unlimited imagination and his dedication, Harold James Cleworth is at the top of his form. His masterpieces including those recreating the Phaeton, the Duesenberg, the Packard and the Auburn will carry his reputation into the seventh decade of his life.
