Christopher Richard Wynne (C.R.W.) Nevinson (1889-1946) was part of the first generation of strongly modernist British painters, befriending and later feuding with, for example, Wyndham Lewis. Nevinson was influenced early in his career by Futurism and Cubism, though he seldom plunged very deeply into their desiderata. Perhaps innate English conservatism and practicality held him back more than he thought or wished.

A fairly long Wikipedia biography is here, and I wrote about his Great War paintings here.

This post features his depictions of various cities. As is often the case for artists of his time, he never really settled into a signature style. Actually, he did have a style used during the first two or three years of the Great War that he is best known for. But he didn't stick with it. The images below are arranged in approximately chronological order.

Gallery

[Image]The Railway Bridge, Charenton - 1911-12

[Image]Le vieux port - 1913

[Image]Bravo! - 1913

[Image]Paris Fortifications - 1913

[Image]Temples of New York - drypoint etching, 1919

[Image]Soul of the Soulless City (New York, an Abstraction) - 1920

[Image]New York by Night - ca. 1920

[Image]Quartier Latin ca. 1920

[Image]La Corniche - 1920

[Image]Victoria Embankment, London - 1924

[Image]Notre Dame de Paris from Quai des Grandes Augustins - 1920s

[Image]London, Winter - 1928

[Image]The Strand by Night - ca. 1937

[Image]Thameside - 1941