EXHIBITED: Royal Academy, 1924, no. 261
This Irish-born artist lived in Hadlow Down, East Sussex from 1922, with his wife who was also a painter. He exhibited this picture in 1924; the year after, he exhibited a similar painting with the three trees set against Offham Hill, to the north of Lewes. The trees in this painting, silhouetted against a dramatic evening sky, are eerily anthropomorphic. They seem to have different characters, and the two flanking trees, one dominant, the other independent, have a parental relationship with the smallest one.
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