Drawings
This theme encompasses drawings as set pieces rather than the 'aide memoire' type of sketch as the basis for a painting. Dad's childhood work may not have consciously been in this category but neither did they develop into paintings. He often commented on the lower status of drawing compared to painting and that no artist's reputation could rest on such work. But I think nowadays drawings are considered more important to the understanding of an artist's work than they were half a century ago. [PB]
Richard's most well known drawings are the set he produced for his solo show at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. These were " . . . designed to fill the whole surface of the paper . . . I planned the drawing in space and continued as complete a realisation over ever square inch as I was capable of . . . Perhaps unconciously I had in mind Durer's engravings which I had admired so much . . .". [from Richard's memoir as quoted by Caroline Krzesinska in her introduction to the catalogue for the 1979-80 Bradford retrospective touring exhibition]
Stormy Sea (1983)
charcoal on paper on board - 34.3h x 51.5w (cm)
The Fisher (1983)
pencil on paper - 27.9h x 38.1w (cm)
Two Figures (1983)
pencil on paper - 23h x 26w (cm)
Solent from Lepe (1982)
charcoal pencil on paper on board - 18h x 31.5w (cm)
Young Man and Woman (1982)
pencil on paper - 53.3h x 55.9w (cm)
For Rupert (1980)
pencil on paper - 25h x 34.5w (cm)
Seascape (1980)
pencil on paper - 28h x 38w (cm)
Moon Through Clouds (1978)
- 27.9h x 38w (cm)
Malham, Yorkshire (1978)
pencil on paper - 23h x 37w (cm)
Pickaback (1978)
pencil on paper - 23h x 37w (cm)
Commercial Landscape (1978)
pen on paper - 32h x 70w (cm)
Sandbank with QE2 (1976)
pencil on paper - 28.8h x 39.1w (cm)
Woman, Fishermen and Tanker (c1976)
pencil on paper
Tanker off Cowes (1975)
pencil on paper on board - 18h x 20.5w (cm)
Tales of the Sea (1975)
pencil on paper - 14.5h x 26.5w (cm)
Figures on a Beach - The Rainbow (1975)
pencil on paper laid to board - 20h x 28w (cm)
Stormy Seascape (1975)
pencil and wash on paper on board - 28h x 48.5w (cm)
Thunder in the Solent (1975)
pencil and wash on paper on board - 31h x 41.5w (cm)
Mouth of the Beaulieu River (1975)
pencil and wash on paper on board - 30h x 40w (cm)
Submarine on the Solent (1975)
pencil on paper laid on board - 22h x 29w (cm)