HAWKINS, Harold Frederick Weaver
(North African village) 1921

watercolour on paper
signed with initials and dated ''21' lr
42 x 57  cm

Exhibited: Possibly at Elliot and Fry’s Galleries, 65 Baker Street, London, April, 1923. Comments: Weaver Hawkins lived in Tangiers in 1921 and 1922. He had been advised to go there as a cheap place where he could ‘easily get a manservant’ who could help with his recuperation following the loss of the use of his right arm in the First World War. Sketchbooks of his Moroccan drawings survive. Some of his drawings were worked up into oil paintings when he returned to England. At least two of these oils were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1921 and 1923. His first solo exhibition, held at Elliot and Fry’s Galleries, London, was titled ‘Morocco and England: etchings and watercolours by Harold Weaver Hawkins’. One reviewer wrote: ‘[with their] glowing colours... they are marvels of ingenuity and perspective’. (Quoted in 'The Art and Life of Weaver Hawkins', Craftsman House, 1995). Weaver Hawkins arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1935.

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