Narrative
Narrative means telling a story. Many of Richard’s paintings do this. He produced a concentration of detailed pictures largely in the 50s and 60s often with different threads of story lines. But apart from these, there are many which pose questions about what exactly is happening!
The Mariner's Return (1953)
oil on canvas - 63.5h x 76w (cm)
The Pleasures of Travel, 1951 (1952)
oil on canvas - 50.8h x 63.5w (cm)
The Mummers (1952)
oil on board - 88h x 92w (cm)
The Return (c1952)
- 30.5h x 50.8w (cm)
A Judgement (1951)
oil on canvas - 102h x 78w (cm)
The Mummers (1951)
oil on board - 21h x 15.9w (cm)
The Ferryboat 'Charon' (1950)
oil on canvas - 74h x 98w (cm)
A Nativity (1949)
- 76.2h x 101.6w (cm)
Marine Harvest (1949)
oil on canvas - 55.9h x 60.9w (cm)
Strange Nativity (1948)
- 40.6h x 50.8w (cm)
La Fête des Saintes Maries de la Mer (1948)
oil on canvas - 63.5h x 101w (cm)
The Battle of the Boggarts (1948)
oil on canvas - 64h x 76w (cm)
Troops at Balliol, Second World War (1947)
oil on canvas - 89.8h x 165.1w (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 x 125.5w (cm)
The Dreamer (1946)
oil on panel - 21h x 27.5w (cm)
Catching the Pony (c1945)
oil on canvas board - 24.5h x 34.5w (cm)
Preparations for D-Day (1944)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Mulberry - The Prefabricated Harbour Assembled, Selsey Bill (1944)
oil on canvas - 37.4h x 81.9w (cm)
Fortresses over Southampton Water (1944)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
D-Day, Reconstruction - Bombed Cathedral (1944)
oil on panel - 102h x 77w (cm)