Hubert Arthur Finney:
Houses and Woods
Framed (ref: 10068)
Pencil, gouache and pastel on paper.

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Provenance: The Artist's Son

A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney studied under Eric Gill before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in the early 1920's; his closest friends there were Charles Mahoney,(1903-1968), Gerald Ososki (1903-1981) and Barnett Freedman (1901-1958). All four appear together in Freedman's group portrait, The Stanhope Street Group (1926). Finney had the good fortune to attend the RCA as part of a generation that were to become amongst Britain's best loved artists (Ravilious, Bawden, Hepworth, Moore, Dunbar, Sorrell, Piper etc). 

Equally versatile when working on canvas or paper, his compositions are characterised by a distinctive use of colour and design, similar in many ways to that of Ravilious, through which everyday scenes and topography are transformed through an underlying sense of pattern. Finney's work is saturated with a the aesthetic now much associated with the mid-century Recording Britain project.