Signed, dated and inscribed with title l.r.: H.A.Finney/1938/Rye Harbour Kent

Watercolour, 34 by 53 cm (13 ¼ by 20 ¾ ins)

Provenance: the artist's son

Finney entered the Royal College of Art in the late 1920s where he became part of a circle that included Barnett Freedman and Percy Horton. Like many students there at this date he fell under the influence of Paul Nash who had taught design at the college a couple of years earlier. The present work strongly recalls Nash’s own coastal scenes, including his beach scenes at Dymchurch (not far from Finney’s location here, at Rye) in the earlier 1920s.