1907
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Seaford is a 1907 watercolor by James Dickson Innes, a Post-Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet beach at sunset. The sky is soft pink and blue, with clouds scattered across it. Below, the water is choppy and dark blue, meeting a rocky shore. A few dark figures stand near the water’s edge, and a line of old wooden posts juts out into the sea. The brushstrokes are loose and quick, almost like sketches. The light on the water looks real, with tiny waves catching the fading sunlight. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by James Dickson Innes from 1907 shows a sunrise over the beach at Seaford, East Sussex, with visible tidebreaks and a small figure positioned in the foreground. The work was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1963 after passing through Leicester Galleries and Agnew’s. It was exhibited at Leicester Galleries in 1952, at Agnew’s in 1963, and later included in a touring retrospective from 1977 to 1978.
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James Dickson Innes (27 February 1887 – 22 August 1914) was a Welsh painter, mainly of mountain landscapes but occasionally of figure subjects. He worked in both oils and watercolours.
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