FDA-D.1715-2023
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1715-2023
Object type
Identification
Title
View of Ripon, North Yorkshire
A Building in a Landscape
A Building in a Landscape
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Previous title
Previous title
Description
Panted view of a landscape of rolling hills; large tree to the left, building on the horizon
Comments
J.E. Hodgkin was an engineer and self-taught watercolour landscapist, based in Darlington, Co. Durham. He was a founder of the Darlington Society of Arts and was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. During World War I, Hodgkin headed the local branch of The Friends War Victims Relief Committee (an official arm of British Quakers) and served as a Quaker chaplain to imprisoned conscientious objectors. In 1939 he closed his solo exhibition of Northumbrian landscapes at Sunderland Art Gallery prematurely after the outbreak of the Second World War. Two years on, Hodgkin exhibited views of Northumberland, Durham and North Riding, at Darlington Art Gallery, donating proceeds from the 6d entry fee to the Darlington Memorial Hospital.
Description
Material
watercolour
paper
paper
Production
Person
Date
1925
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Richard Henry Allen Amis (K.S. 1945-50; 1932-2018); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
