TRISTRAM HILLIER, R.A. | DEVON FISHING CRAFT

Arthur Tooth & Co., London, where acquired by Susan Buchanan

'His particular quality of elegance is rare in our dowdy Georgian period where prejudice is against all those qualities that are personal privileges and cannot by acquired by patience and application, but must be born in the bone. In the age of expressionism which like all conscious folk-art is loud, mournful, ugly,... these pictures refresh us with their outward coolness and clarity.' (Roy Campbell, Forward to New Paintings by Tristram Hillier, (exh. cat.), Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London, February 1933, reproduced in Jenny Pery, Painter Pilgrim: The Art and Life of Tristram Hillier, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008, p.50)