31. Albert Goodwin
(1845-1932)

Durham with the Cathedral

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Goodwin, Durham with the Cathedral

Durham with the Cathedral

Gouache over pencil and black chalk on brown paper, 1909, 211 x 279 mm. Goodwin has been called probably the greatest follower of Turner. Schooled originally in the pre-Raphaelite style, he later was strongly influenced by Turner and championed by Ruskin, traveled extensively, and pursued a successful career as painter and watercolorist into the 1930s. His mature work is often experimental in technique while remaining faithful to the realities of what he observed. He made many different images of Durham, in the north of England. This one, while topographically precise, is concerned with the contrast of dramatic flashes of light in the sky, reflected on the river, and the shadowed city in which bits of color emerge subtly from the near darkness. Signed, dated and inscribed in ink and laid down on thin board.