Loading Timber at Southampton Docks

Loading Timber at Southampton Docks
ArtistC.R.W. Nevinson
Year1917
TypeOil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions51 cm × 61 cm (20 in × 24 in)
Location

Loading Timber at Southampton Docks is an oil on canvas genre painting by the British artist C.R.W. Nevinson, from 1917.

History and description

It depicts dockers loading timber aboard a ship at the Port of Southampton. The artist had passed through the docks during the First World War on his way to France where he produced many paintings of the Western Front.

Nevinson was strongly influenced by Italian futurism and the painting uses the style of the movement including the zigzagging composition. The painting is in the collection of the Southampton City Art Gallery, which it acquired it in 1962.

References

  1. ↑ Fowler & Taylor p.52
  2. ↑ Southampton City Art Gallery: Highlights from the Collection. Southampton City Art Gallery, 2026. p.57
  3. ↑ Southampton Art Gallery
  4. ↑ Art UK

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