James Dickson Innes

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James Dickson Innes (27 February 1887 – 22 August 1914) was a British painter, mainly of mountain landscapes but occasionally of figure subjects. He worked in both oils and water-colours.

Of his style, art historian David Fraser Jenkins wrote:

Like that of the fauves in France and the expressionists in Germany, the style of his work is primitive: it is child-like in technique and is associated with the landscape of remote places.^[1]

Deep Twilight, Pyrenees (1912 or 1913)

Biography

James Dickson Innes was born on 27 February 1887 in Llanelli, in south Wales. His father, John Innes, who had come from Scotland, was an historian and had an interest in a local brass and copper works; his mother was of Catalan descent. He had two brothers, Alfred and Jack.

His parents sent him to be educated at Christ College, Brecon. Afterwards he studied at the Carmarthen School of Art (1904–05), from where he won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art in London (1905–08).

From 1907 he exhibited with the New English Art Club; and in 1911 he became a member of the Camden Town Group.^[2]

In 1911 he had a two-man exhibition with Eric Gill at the Chenil Gallery, London: "Sculptures by Mr Eric Gill and Landscapes by Mr J. D. Innes".^[1]^[3]

In 1911 and 1912 he spent some time painting with Augustus John around Arenig Fawr in the Arenig valley in North Wales; but much of his work was done overseas, mainly in France (1908–1913), notably at Collioure, but also in Spain (1913) and Morocco (1913) – foreign travel having been prescribed after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Eventually, on 22 August 1914, at the age of twenty-seven, he died of the disease at a nursing home in Swanley, Kent.

Select works

The Seine at Caudebec (1908)
Thunder in the Mountains (1910)
The Waterfall (1910) (Tate Gallery, London)
Moorland Landscape with Sunset, Collioure (c. 1910) (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
The Cathedral at Elne (1911) (National Museum Cardiff)
Tryweryn Valley (1911) (Parc Howard Museum, Llanelli)
Bala Lake (1911)
Ranunculus (1912) (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Arenig, North Wales (1913) (Tate Gallery, London)
Inkwell and Pens (Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth)

Media

In 2011 Innes and Augustus John's fascination with painting Arenig Fawr and the Arenig valley was the subject of a BBC documentary titled The Mountain That Had to Be Painted.^[4]

Notes and references

↑ 1.0 1.1 Fraser Jenkins, David (1975). J. D. Innes at the National Museum of Wales. National Museum of Wales. ISBN 0 7200 0055 6.
↑ Baron, Wendy and Sickert, Walter. Sickert: Paintings and Drawings, p. 81, Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-300-11129-0, ISBN 978-0-300-11129-3
↑ "Eric Gill - Crucifixion 1910". Tate.
↑ BBC Four, 18 May 2011, The Mountain that had to be Painted.

External links

v t e Camden Town Group

Artists	Walter Bayes Robert Bevan Malcolm Drummond Harold Gilman Charles Ginner Spencer Frederick Gore Duncan Grant James Dickson Innes Augustus John Henry Lamb Wyndham Lewis Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot J. B. Manson Lucien Pissarro William Ratcliffe Walter Sickert John Doman Turner

Influences	Paul Gauguin Vincent van Gogh

Related groups	Fitzroy Street Group Allied Artists Association Vorticism London Group Cumberland Market Group Group X

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Persondata
Name	Innes, James Dickson
Alternative names
Short description	British painter
Date of birth	1887
Place of birth
Date of death	1914
Place of death

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