Oil and wallpaper collage on canvas
17.5" x 13.75"
Likely early 1950’s
The wallpaper may be one of his designs from the 1940s.
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"
1950
In this painting the wallpaper designs are painted rather than collage
Oil on leather
24" x 16"
It is most likely from the early 1950’s perhaps as early as 1950
He did a number of paintings on leather, which are undated. He may have done them after Daphne visited in 1953 or 1954, or that visit may have simply got him interested in the sculptural properties of leather.
Oil on canvas
1958
It is mentioned in letters from the spring of 1958 and may have been sold to a Dr. Wills in San Fernando in 1959. He mentions these flaming Sunflowers in a letter to John Pearce and Iona Swift from Oct 5, 1961.
Oil on canvas
25" x 36"
1958
It was complete in about mid-November of 1958 and was submitted to a show at the Whitney in early Feb. 1959.
Oil on canvas
1959
Bought by Senator Marguerite Wyke from Hugh’s show in the fall of 1959. It is in the background of a photo of her and her husband in an article on her that appeared in Ebony in June of 1960. It is also mentioned in a letter (to Daphne) of May 6, 1959.
