Untitled Watercolor 1971 22x28

Year1971

Hand SignedLeft Hand Edge Just Below Halfway Down, on Stone Wall 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with GlassPlain Wooden Gold Or Guilt Finish 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID145189

Harold Hitchcock - United Kingdom

Art Brokerage: Harold Hitchcock British Artist: b. 1914-2009. The renowned British painter Harold Hitchcock, born in 1914, is a descendant of the artist George Stubbs and was encouraged to paint at an early age by his grandfather and two uncles who were exhibiting artists at the Royal Academy. He painted from a very early age receiving much praise from Dame Laura Knight and was proclaimed a prodigy by the English press. His work is purely imaginative - often depicting, in fine detail, a romantic mythological world of idealised beauty, suffused in light, and reminiscent of the 17th Century painter, Claude Lorraine. However his art often has a peculiarly English quality following in the tradition of artists such as William Blake (in his adoption of a personal mythology) and particularly Samuel Palmer in his depiction of a pastoral idyll. His use of light also recalls the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. Remarkably unaffected by modern trends in art he follows his own unique inner vision working in a spontaneous way with great technical skill. Later works have additionally included a more figurative and semi-abstract style but without sacrificing the prismatic jewel-like quality of light and color seen in the landscapes. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.