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Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)

Radar Transmitting Station, part of the Chain Home System, late 1930’s

SKU: 10032
Pencil and gouache on paper.
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 20cm x Width – 16.2cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate
Exhibitied:
The Lightbox, Woking, Out of the Shadows, 2020, cat 51

Possibly a design for a poster or book cover this shows a transmission tower with  a bi-plane, flying over the Westbury Horse, Wiltshire. The latter brings to mind the now celebrated image by Ravilious, who was a fellow RCA student and acquaintance of  Finney.

Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal Early Warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. The first five stations, covering the approaches to London, were installed by 1937 and began full-time operation in 1938.The Chain Home network was continually expanded, with over forty stations operational by the war’s end. CH was not able to detect aircraft at low altitude, and from 1939 was normally partnered with the Chain Home Low system, or AMES Type 2, which could detect aircraft flying at any altitude over 500 ft (150 m).

We are grateful to Andrew Cormack for assistance.

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THE ARTIST

Hubert Arthur Finney
Hubert Arthur
Finney
1905 - 1991

A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney studied under Eric Gill before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in the early 1920’s; his closest friends there were Charles Mahoney,(1903-1968), Gerald Ososki (1903-1981) and Barnett Freedman (1901-1958). Finney had the good fortune to attend the RCA as part of a golden generation, many of whom went on to become some of Britain’s best loved artists (amongst them Ravilious, Bawden, Hepworth, Moore, Dunbar, Sorrell, and Piper). After a travelling scholarship to Rome, in 1929, Finney returned to become a teacher at Chelsea School of Art – working alongside Henry Moore who was in charge of the Sculpture Department and Graham Sutherland, the Department of Design.
From 1927-1934 he exhibited at the NEAC. In 1935 his painting Mother and Child was acquired by Carlisle Art Gallery. During WW2 Finney worked for the light rescue service of the Civil Defense.
After the war he taught part time under Anthony Betts at Reading University and was in charge of life drawing there when he retired in 1970. Although he was reluctant to show his work he did exhibit at the RA Summer exhibition (in 1950 and 1954) and the Portrait Society and at The Paris Salon. A large solo exhibition took place at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Education in 1964, and at The Lightbox, Woking, in 2022.

We are grateful to Nicholas Finney and David Buckman for assistance.

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