Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities
Richard was a shy and retiring man, but he recounts in his memoir how the celebrations in his native Bradford spilled out over the streets with huge energy and a certain wildness. He loved to watch them from a safe distance (usually through a window) and his inner being responded to the mood. He loved to observe how the clustering of people and crowds added intensity to a room or landscape.
Cowes Week (1980)
oil on board - 28.5h × 44.5w (cm)
Paint freshly put on and scratched here and there with the end of the brush-handle conveys the sense of the crowds in holiday mood with their picnics on Lepe Beach watching the yacht races in the Solent.
The Procession, Yorkshire (1970)
oil on board - 43h × 98w (cm)
A wonderful panorama drawing on childhood memories safely viewed from a distance. The quiet ancientness of the foreground is a foil to the imagined noise and movement beyond the wall.
Negro Ballet (c1950)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Possibly more of a Caribbean one? He always was against using photographs as a basis for a painting but in fact did use them on several occasions. This may well be one of them.
The Fish Market (1988)
oil on panel - 16h × 25w (cm)
Bank Holiday (1988)
oil on board - 10h × 38w (cm)
Cowes Regatta (1986)
oil on board - 12.7h × 28w (cm)
Busy Shore (1986)
oil on board - 40h × 43w (cm)
Figures on the Beach (1986)
oil on board - 16h × 35.5w (cm)
Greenham Common (1985)
oil on board - 41.8h × 53.5w (cm)
The Picnic Party (1985)
oil on board - 61h × 76.2w (cm)
The Quetzal Dance (1985)
oil on board - 39.4h × 48.9w (cm)
Last Glimpse (1984)
oil on board - 41.9h × 61w (cm)
The Burning Bush (1984)
oil on board - 80h × 121.5w (cm)
Children on the Beach (1984)
oil on board - 30.5h × 61w (cm)
Stampede (1984)
pencil and wash on paper - 28h × 61w (cm)
In Memoriam: Nagasaki (c1984)
oil on board - 55.9h × 61w (cm)
Interior with Window (1983)
pencil on paper - 24h × 47w (cm)
Northern Procession (1983)
oil on board - 61h × 73.5w (cm)
The Last of the Guy (1983)
oil on board - 61h × 61w (cm)
Singing Girl (1983)
oil on board - 19h × 9w (cm)
The Camp (1982)
oil on board - 19.5h × 29w (cm)
The Tall Ships, Southampton (1982)
oil on board - 74h × 114w (cm)
Halloween (1981)
oil on board - 18.4h × 21.6w (cm)
Beach Carnival (1981)
oil on board - 61h × 91.5w (cm)
Clutter of Cars (1981)
oil on board - 24h × 30w (cm)
Breakthrough, Chesil Beach (1981)
oil on ? - 33h × 60.7w (cm)
Barbeque and Fireworks (1980)
oil on board - 20.3h × 25.4w (cm)
Break Through, Chesil Beach (1980)
oil on board - 51.2h × 86.2w (cm)
Harvesters (1978)
oil on board - 24h × 33w (cm)
Old Boathouse, Beaulieu River (1977)
oil on board - 71h × 91w (cm)
Harvest Festival (1976)
oil on board - 19.5h × 15.2w (cm)
Workers Emerging (1976)
oil on board - 33h × 28w (cm)
Nocturne (1975)
oil on board - 30.5h × 30.5w (cm)
Mischief Night (1975)
oil on canvas - 78.8h × 122w (cm)
Edge of the Moors (1973)
oil on panel - 38h × 61w (cm)
A Beach (1973)
oil on board - 54.5h × 105w (cm)
The Epiphany (1973)
oil on board - 46h × 61w (cm)
Northumbrian Sword Dance (1973)
oil on board - 30.5h × 61w (cm)
Watchers on a Beach (1971)
oil on board - 76.2h × 101.6w (cm)
Study of Figures on Beach (1970)
oil on board - 21.5h × 61w (cm)
Beach with Bathers (1969)
oil on board - 40.7h × 122w (cm)
Wreck and Landslip, Yorkshire Coast (1968)
oil on canvas - 41h × 61w (cm)
Sir Francis Chichester’s Return Celebration at Buckler's Hard on 17th Sept 1967 (1967)
oil on board - 52h × 68w (cm)
Sir Francis Chichester's Return to Beaulieu River on 17th September, 1967 after his circumnavigation of the world in Gipsy Moth IV (1967)
oil on board - 27.5h × 78w (cm)
The Messenger (1962)
oil on board - 94.5h × 125w (cm)
The Whitby Lights (1962)
oil on board - 35.2h × 58.1w (cm)
Whitby, North Yorkshire, to Represent Sheffield on Holiday (1961)
oil on canvas - 304.8h × 426.7w (cm)
Chatsworth to Represent Sheffield at Play (1961)
oil on canvas - 304.8h × 426.7w (cm)
Whitby, Study for a Mural in the Teaching Hospital, Sheffield (1960)
oil on board - 69h × 101w (cm)
The Guy (1958)
oil on canvas - 127h × 101.6w (cm)
Men of Straw (1957)
oil on panel - 50.8h × 101.6w (cm)
The Critics (1956)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76.2w (cm)
York Festival Triptych (1956)
oil on canvas - 130.8h × 196.2w (cm)
Rouen (1956)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Doncaster Races, St Leger (1954)
oil on canvas - 51h × 61w (cm)
Queen of the Sea, 1911 (1954)
oil on canvas - 122h × 182.8w (cm)
Coronation Procession - Admiralty Arch from Trafalgar Square (1953)
oil on canvas laid on board - 34.5h × 77w (cm)
The Mariner's Return (1953)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 76w (cm)
The Mummers (1952)
oil on board - 88h × 92w (cm)
Paper Boats (1951)
oil on panel - 19h × 20w (cm)
Episode at Lyme Regis (1951)
oil on cardboard - 20h × 25w (cm)
The Mummers (1951)
oil on board - 21h × 15.9w (cm)
The Ferryboat 'Charon' (1950)
oil on canvas - 74h × 98w (cm)
A Nativity (1949)
- 76.2h × 101.6w (cm)
Marine Harvest (1949)
oil on canvas - 55.9h × 60.9w (cm)
The Birthday Tea Table (1949)
- 45.7h × 55.9w (cm)
Fishing Village Celebrating at Night (1948)
- 62h × 75w (cm)
La Fête des Saintes Maries de la Mer (1948)
oil on canvas - 63.5h × 101w (cm)
Twelfth Night (1948)
oil on board with arched top - 30h × 30w (cm)
Dancing Men (1948)
oil on canvas - 40.5h × 51w (cm)
The Guy (1948)
oil on canvas - 61h × 51w (cm)
The Battle of the Boggarts (1948)
oil on canvas - 64h × 76w (cm)
Troops at Balliol, Second World War (1947)
oil on canvas - 89.8h × 165.1w (cm)
Freedom of the City of Westminster Given to Winston Churchill (1946)
oil on canvas - 85h × 112w (cm)
His Majesty King George VI conferring the Order of Knighthood upon Sir Henry Marten, Provost, on the steps of College Chapel (1946)
oil on canvas - 100.5h × 125.5w (cm)
A Rugger Match (c1943)
oil on board - 20h × 40.5w (cm)
The Frozen Tarn (1940)
oil on canvas (with scratching out) - 40.5h × 51w (cm)
Dunkirk Beach, 1940 (1940)
oil on board - 28h × 50.8w (cm)
R.M.S. Queen Mary, First Arrival at Southampton (1936)
oil on canvas - 50.8h × 101.6w (cm)
Robin Hood's Bay (1935)
oil on canvas - 86.36h × 130.81w (cm)
The White Ship, Weymouth (1935)
oil on canvas - 87h × 131w (cm)
Rabbiting by the River (1929)
pencil on paper - 17.5h × 38.5w (cm)
Ice Skating (1928)
pencil on paper - 21h × 31.7w (cm)
Fantazia (1927)
pencil on paper - 25.5h × 32w (cm)
Sailors and Other Figures Carousing by a Quay (1925)
oil on canvas - 91.5h × 122w (cm)
The Crucifixion (1924)
oil on canvas - 76.2h × 101.6w (cm)