Room guide
Apse: Drawings
Nicholson's drawing style changed little between the 1920s and early 1950s. He used a strong, continuous line and a minimum of shading. Highly-simplified landscape compositions are punctuated with closely-observed, often whimsical details. The dominant line unites these foreground incidents with the background so that the space seems to be flattened out. In this way the drawings themselves provide a continuous line running through periods of apparently quite different work.
Works displayed in this room
- 1928 (St Ives) (horse on Porthminster)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection - 1928 (St Ives) (boats in harbour)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection - First day August 1928 (St Ives) (Porthmeor Beach)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection - 11 August 1928 (St Ives)
Graphite on yellowed paper from a spiral-bound sketchbook
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax - circa 1932 (nude)
Pencil on paper mounted on paper
Tate. Bequeathed by the artist 1985 - 1932 (girl in mirror)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection - 1932 (girl in mirror)
Pencil on paper
lent by Su Rogers - 1940 (St Ives rooftops)
Pencil on paper
Philip and Psiche Hughes - 1941 (Zennor)
Pencil on paper
Salford Museum & Art Gallery - Summer 1947 (Mount's Bay)
Pencil on paper
Manchester City Galleries - March 1948 (tree, Lelant)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection - March 1948 (two gravestones, Hayle estuary)
Pencil on card
Private Collection - March 1948 (Lelant churchyard)
Pencil on paper
Private collection - June 16 1948 (Penzance, inner harbour)
Pencil on paper
Private Collection