Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-1979)
Widgeonsigned "C.F. Tunnicliffe" lower right
watercolor, 15 by 22 1/2 in.
The Tryon Gallery Ltd., London label on back
Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru Welsh Arts Council Exhibition label on back
The inside dust jacket of Tunnicliffe's "Shorelands Winter Diary" reads: "Charles Tunnicliffe is widely recognized as one of the finest natural history artists of this century. [He] was born in 1901 in Langley, Cheshire. His youth was spent on a small farm in Macclesfield. A scholarship to the Royal College of Art took him to London where he studied etching and engraving in addition to the general art training. By the mid-1920s he was producing beautiful etchings of rural scenes. Tunnicliffe went on to illustrate with wood engravings the novels of Henry Williamson, including 'Tarka the Otter.'
"In the 1930s he took up bird study, becoming an ardent birdwatcher. In 1947 he moved from Manchester to Malltraeth on the Cefni estuary in Anglesey, off the coast of Wales. Apart from a long and successful career as a book illustrator, Charles Tunnicliffe achieved great popularity as a watercolourist, exhibiting annually for many years at the R.A. summer shows. He died at Shorelands in February 1979."
Provenance: Eddie Woodin Collection
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