Bicycles
These are motifs that seem to compel attention by their frequency. Bicycles even in the age of the motor car are still everywhere. But the most poignant is the soldier struggling to save his bike from the sea in D-Day, Beach Landing. Ladders are instruments of humour or a certain significance: “The Shroud”.
D-Day, Reconstruction - Beach Landing (1944)
oil on panel - 102h × 228.5w (cm)
This shows the grim determination of the soldiers crawling or striding out of the sea onto the beach. One of them is almost stuck, hindered by the awkward weight of his bicycle as he heaves it out of the sea. The picture is a panorama-shape but the shapes of the men fill the vertical space making the scene more dramatic.
The Three-Master (1984)
oil on board - 23.5h × 60.9w (cm)
Beach Carnival (1981)
oil on board - 61h × 91.5w (cm)
Breakthrough, Chesil Beach (1981)
oil on ? - 33h × 60.7w (cm)
Bike on the Beach (1979)
oil on board - 15h × 22w (cm)
Workers Emerging (1976)
oil on board - 33h × 28w (cm)
Steam Train (the last perhaps) and Aeroplane (1969)
oil on board - 46.5h × 61w (cm)
Bowden Hill (1963)
oil on canvas - 51h × 76w (cm)
A Refinery Scene (The Seven Sisters) (1960)
oil on board - 50h × 120w (cm)
Northern Landscape (1957)
oil on canvas - 102h × 128w (cm)
York Festival Triptych (1956)
oil on canvas - 130.8h × 196.2w (cm)
Doncaster Races, St Leger (1954)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Gay Lane (1952)
oil on canvas - 76h × 63.5w (cm)
Episode at Lyme Regis (1951)
oil on cardboard - 20h × 25w (cm)
Hot Day in the Village (1951)
oil on panel - 20.3h × 17.8w (cm)
A Nativity (1949)
- 76.2h × 101.6w (cm)
Dunkirk 1940 (c1940)
oil on board - 26.6h × 35.5w (cm)