GRAHAM, George

1881 - 1949

George Graham was born at Leeds, Yorkshire on 1 June 1881, son of Michael Graham (1839-1896), a joiner, and his wife Azubah née Porter (1850-1911), who married at the Parish Church, Leeds on 26 February 1870. In 1891, George was a 9-year-old, living at Grant Street, Leeds with his parents, 51-year-old Michael and 41-year-old Azubah, and siblings Annie 23, David 14, William 12, Harry 8 and Nellie 4, all born at Leeds. Graham studied under Thomas Dyer of Leeds for two years 1899-1901 to become an architect, taking drawing lessons in the evenings at Leeds School of Art and in London under Sir Frank Brangwyn, Sir William Nicholson and other teachers. An artist in oil and watercolour and a wood engraver and was a member of Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and a leading figure in the Society of Yorkshire Artists and the Society of Sussex Painters. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1908 and exhibited most years until 1947, also showing at the Fine Art Society and the New English Art Club. He married at Leyburn, Yorkshire in 1915 Catherine Freeland Pauli (29 October 1877-11 February 1958) but had no issue. In 1923 he exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art Society, a watercolour 'Cahors Bridge' the year that he settled at Salt Dykes, Winchelsea, a house that he had started building in 1922 and where they were still living in 1939. Painting landscapes and deeply religious creation paintings, he must have retained a house in Suffolk as he again exhibited at the Ipswich Art Club in 1932 from Old Post Office, Walberswick 'The Tide Mill' and was a member and exhibitor at the Norfolk & Norwich Art Circle from Wroxham, Norfolk 1927-1929. A member of the East Sussex Arts Club and elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1948. Graham was affected by profound deafness which served to isolate him from everyday life and he had a passion for music which also influenced the intensity of his work. George Graham died at his home Salt Dykes, Sea Road, Winchelsea, Battle, Sussex on 1 January 1949. Public galleries in Norfolk, Sunderland, University of Hull, Museum of Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, and Worthing hold examples of his work. He signed his works 'George Graham'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 2 Sandhurst Terrace, Harehills Lane, Leeds
1908 760 February Sunshine
from c/o J. R. Flitch, Esq., Moor Allerton, Leeds
1909 481 In Chelsea
1910 43 Under the Willows
1911 69 Bolton Castle, Yorks.
         540 St. Gevais, Paris
from Redmire, Yorkshire
1913 138 The Rag Shop
         847 Market Fountain, Paris
1914 467 Winter Haarlem
         492 Lindisfarne
1916 50 French Landscape
         775 French Village
1917 273 Freezing
1918 597 Winter
1920 249 Freezeing
         688 Wye and Severn
1921 624 Lindisfarne Castle
         667 Stalcair
1922 729 Lancaster
         844 Invdrloch
from Saltdykes, Winchelsea, Sussex
1923 306 Avignon
         756 Les Baux en Provence
1924 37 Pride, Pomp and Power, Cahors
         385 Frosty Morning, Winchelsea
1925 201 Cahors
         718 Hastings
1926 767 A Sussex Fort
1927 57 Tarascon
         260 London
         629 Rochester
1928 388 Avignon
         392 Rye Harbour
         473 Ballyhack
1929 112 Norfolk Landscape
         560 Albi
1930 322 Passage East
         598 Mountain Landscape
         941 Mountain Drama
1931 327 Entrance to a River
         446 The Lookout
         481 The Tide Mill
1932 101 The Ship Inn
         128 Winter Afternoon: Winchelsea
         262 Harbour
1933 140 Frosty Evening
         412 Snowy Showers, Wensleydale
         590 The Round Tower
1934 88 Winter Evening
         717 Rainy Night and Winter Morrow
         941 Unfolding Day - watercolour
1935 346 The Wind Returns
1936 771 The Creation
         772 Creation: the Empowering of the Clouds
1938 957 Rye Bay - watercolour
1939 319 Frosty Moonrise
from Castle Bolton, Leyburn, Yorks.
1942 392 Winter in Wensleydale - watercolour
         400 Winter Afternoon - watercolour
1943 515 Autumn Evening, Wensleydale - watercolour
         687 Autumn Morning, Wensleydale - watercolour
1944 800 The West Wind, Wensleydale - watercolour
         917 Winter Sunshine, Wensleydale - watercolour
1945 170 The Speeding Day
         836 Morning Clouds - watercolour
         967 Mountain Landscape, Wales - watercolour
         1022 Rain at Nantmor, Wales - watercolour
from Salt Dykes, Winchelsea, Sussex
1946 494 Bolton Moor, Wensleydale
         838 Morning in the Mountains - watercolour
1947 90 The Romney Marsh

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Works by This Artist