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Hubert Arthur Finney:
School Teacher, mid 1920's
Unmounted (ref: 10272)
Signed with initials and titled. Pencil on paper.

Tags: Hubert Arthur Finney drawing pencil Portrait life drawing portraits study women

Provenance: The Artist's Studio

At the age of twenty-two Finney's talent  gained him a Scholarship to the Royal College of Art.  Here  he was taught and mentored  by William Rothenstein (1872-1945) - described by Finney as 'a dynamic personality with high ideals, and a deep love of all the arts except music. His powerful personality infiltrated throughout the whole college and his deep belief in the significance of the Arts gave the students and most people who came in contact with him a feeling that any effort was worthwhile in finding a deeper meaning to life'. Finney was also taught be Allan Gwynne-Jones (1892-1982), Professor of Painting, who described him as  'one of the best students we have had. He is very gifted as a painter and designer'

Mahoney (with who had gained a scholarship to the RCA in advance of Finney) introduced him to a new circle: Gerald Ososki (1903-1981), Albert Houthnesen, (1903-1979 ) Percy Horton, (1897-1970) and Barnett Freedman (1901-1958) -  becoming himself one of the prodigies who created a golden generation  at the college between the wars. Group portrait  by Freedman.  None the less Finney wished that the RCA had 'been a little more open to the contemporary movements of the time' 

This study dates to Finney's student years at the Royal College of Art.