Harry Hoodless

1913-1997

The Seamark, Liverpool

Ref: 1042

Signed and dated l.l.: Hoodless/1955

Tempera on board, 24 ¾ by 36 ¾ ins (63 by 93.5 cm)

Provenance: Purchased for the Paten & Co Art Collection at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1955

Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1955, no.700

 

A seamark (also known in its two word form “sea mark”) is a general name for a navigational mark that helps to guide maritime traffic into harbours, as well as identifying positions of channels or hazards (such as wrecks) in shallow waters. The seamark itself, together with other items of marine equipment and detritus, such as barrels, driftwood and iron grates help lend Hoodless’s dockside an other-worldy, almost extra-terrestrial air.

 

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Harry Hoodless (1913-1997)

 

A painter who specialised in oil and tempera, Hoodless was born in Leeds and studied at the art college there and at the Royal College of Art where his teachers included Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. He later taught at Norwich School of Art and the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead where he was principal. Hoodless’s work maintained a strong association with Liverpool and the Wirral, particularly his iconic dockyard scenes, chronicling the machinery, debris and decay of the docks in a surreal manner which recalls the work of Edward Wadsworth and Tristram Hillier. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy and the Wirral Society of Artists, and he is represented in a number of northern public collections including the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead at both of which he also exhibited in group exhibitions in his lifetime.

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