The Ulric Walmsley Catalogue

Page 6 – Woods and Streams

ULRIC's interest in woodlands festooned with bluebells goes back to his earliest days as an artist and continued through to the relatively late paintings illustrated here. He probably discovered the River Taff as a youth living in Wales (see page 11) and Dutton in Cheshire during his Liverpool years: both locations are renowned for bluebells and featured in the earliest paintings he exhibited. It is not known whether the scenes shown below are from North Yorkshire or hark back to earlier days. We now know that Ulric also sketched in the Peak District during WWI, when he was living in Sheffield and working in a munitions factory.

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Autumn woodland

Autumn woodland
(Oil on canvas, unsigned, 28 x 43 cm)
Cat no 018

Note: Possibly unfinished, this work was found underneath another canvas
from 1901: it may therefore be one of the earliest surviving landscapes.



Bluebells in wood

Bluebells in wood
(Watercolour, 1919, 17 x 25 cm)
Cat no 142

Notes: Evidently sold as a pair with the painting opposite. The location is unidentiied.



Wood with poppies

Wood with poppies near coast
(Oil on canvas, 24 x 33 cm)
Cat no 129

Notes: Painted on the back of an unfinished portrait of a female (see
page 12). The precise location is unknown, though the sailing boats in
the background suggest it may be near Robin Hood's Bay. An almost
identical scene exists in watercolour showing bluebells in place of
the poppies.



Stream

Rural scene with stream
(Watercolour, 27 x 19 cm)
Cat no 118



Mill Beck

Mill Beck, Robin Hood's Bay
(Postcard, undated, 9 x 14 cm)
Cat no UND/1

Note: From probably the latest postcard series, published by Ruddock of
Lincoln in about 1914.



Mill Beck

Mill Beck, Robin Hood's Bay
(Watercolour, 18 x 27 cm)
Cat no 020



Rigg Mill Rigg Mill

Rigg Mill, near Robin Hood's Bay
(Postcards, 1909 and undated, 14 x 9 cm)
Cat no 1909/2 and UND/6

Notes: The 1909 postcard is one of only two known scenes by Jenkinson;
the other by Ruddock is from about 1914. The difference in the mill's
appearance is a good illustration of Ulric's artistic licence.



Ramsdale Mill

Ramsdale Mill, near Robin Hood's Bay
(Postcard, 1910, 9 x 14 cm)
Cat no 1910/1
Rocky stream

Rocky stream
(Watercolour, 18 x 26 cm)
Cat no 143




Bluebells by stream

Bluebells by stream
(Watercolour, 1919, 17 x 24 cm)
Cat no 141




Grindleford

Grindleford in the Peak District
(Watercolour, 1919, 18 x 26 cm)
Cat no 135

Notes: The date was added after the signature. Ulric probably worked on this
painting when he was based in Sheffield in 1918. The scene is typical but
the colours are unusual, reflecting the very different terrain of the
Derwent valley.



Elworth Beck

Elworth Beck, Fylingdales
(Watercolour, unsigned, 25 x 19 cm)
Cat no 164

Note: The same scene features in a large oil painting with Ulric's original
label on the back.



Fylingdales

Fylingdales
(Watercolour on sketching board, 48 x 56 cm)
Cat no 130

Note: One of the very largest watercolours.



Rigg Mill

Rigg Mill, near Robin Hood's Bay
(Oil, 30 x 25 cm)
Cat no 007

Note: This work is several decades later than the postcards opposite.



Ramsdale Mill

Ramsdale Mill
(Watercolour, 25 x 18 cm)
Cat no 160

Note: Once again the difference in style from the much earlier postcard
opposite is very clear.




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