Rowland Suddaby LG 1912-1972
Fishing Boats, Cornwall 1940
Watercolour, signed and inscribed
with title and date on reverse
Size: 31cm x 38.5cm
 
Rowland Suddaby was born in Kimberworth, Yorkshire.
He studied at the Sheffield College of Art from 1926,
winning a scholarship there. He came to London in 1931 aged nineteen,
married young, and found it a real struggle to make a living in those early years.
However his work was noticed by Rex Nan Kivell and he had a successful show 
initially at the Wertheim Gallery in London in 1935, who were always ready to
give new talented artists a showcase for their work, and then a series of
shows from 1936 at the Redfern Gallery. He was regarded by the latter as their
artist 'successor' to Christopher Wood, and he painted vigorous and atmospheric
pictures in London and Cornwall in the mid to late 1930s some very much in the
Wood tradition. These paintings in both oils and watercolours had spontaneity
and a sureness of touch which really caught the imagination of critics and collectors alike.