Trees in Mountain Valley

This image is from a glass plate negative found in the estate's archive. We think it is possibly a painting done after his camping trip to Scotland the summer of 1926.

The style of the painting may be similar to a landscape Richard had submitted to the Slade Sketch Club monthly competition:

"I sent in a landscape or two and one of these called forth the only memorable saying by Professor Tonks “This student is being influenced by painters who have not been dead long enough to be respectable”. I had found Cezanne. Tonks could not understand Cezanne. He said …

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This image is from a glass plate negative found in the estate's archive. We think it is possibly a painting done after his camping trip to Scotland the summer of 1926.

The style of the painting may be similar to a landscape Richard had submitted to the Slade Sketch Club monthly competition:

"I sent in a landscape or two and one of these called forth the only memorable saying by Professor Tonks “This student is being influenced by painters who have not been dead long enough to be respectable”. I had found Cezanne. Tonks could not understand Cezanne. He said he was just flat “and that’s that.”" [from chapter 24 of Richard's memoir "As a Twig is Bent".]

It is possible that this work was the Scottish landscape that Richard mentions submitting to the Daily Express Young Artists Exhibition in 1927.