Sunday, June 28, 2020

Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) - Outdoor Commitment

Ivon Hitchens
A Sybilline Courtyard
1974
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Ivon Hitchens
Blue Door, House and Outside
ca. 1972
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Ivon Hitchens
Red Centre
1972
oil on canvas
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex

Ivon Hitchens
Spring in Autumn
1967
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Ivon Hitchens
Reeded Boat
1961
oil on canvas
Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

Ivon Hitchens
Warnford Water, Movement Left and Right
1959
oil on canvas
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

"Ivon Hitchens was born in London and studied at St. John's Wood School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1940 he moved to West Sussex, where he was to spend the rest of his life. There, he was able to distance himself from artistic trends and immerse himself in nature, which was his greatest inspiration. Preferring to paint outdoors, Hitchens is known primarily for his atmospheric landscape paintings, which depict a mysterious and evocative countryside."

– from biographical notes at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Ivon Hitchens
The Boat House
1956
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Ivon Hitchens
Arched Trees No. 12
1954
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Ivon Hitchens
South Mill
1945
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Ivon Hitchens
Flower Piece
1943
oil on canvas
Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire

Ivon Hitchens
Interior, Boy in Bed
1941
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Ivon Hitchens
River Scene at Holbrook and Molly in a Boat
ca. 1938
oil on canvas
Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Ivon Hitchens
Balcony at Cambridge
1929
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Ivon Hitchens
Henry Moore at work in his Parkhill Studio C
1929
oil on canvas
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire

Ivon Hitchens
Primrose No. 2
1926
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London