Figurative Work
1960-1969
Oil on canvas
23” x 27"
1960
The painting references two or three paintings from the early 1950s
Oil on canvas
Dimensions unknown
Painted in January 1960 as a commission for Conrad Stollmeyer. There is another version, probably from the 1930’s.
Oil on canvas
23" x 28"
1960
There is a work similar to this dated 1944, and another probably painted in the mid-1950’s.
Gouache on paper
9.5" x 12"
1960
Leticia brought vegetables to Mon Valmont and she would sit in the kitchen ‘visiting’, which is probably were Hugh sketched her.
Oil on canvas
Dimensions unknown
1961
Shown in the Trinidad art society show of November 1961 and singled out for particular scorn by Derek Walcott.
Watercolour on card
5” square approximately
Xmas 1961 for John and Iona, this is one of a series of animals he did at this time (purple cow, yellow horses) which he refers to as children’s pictures. They eventually were incorporated in a design for wallpaper.
Oil on canvas
21” x 25”
Sketches done in November and December 1961
This oil was not shown in his one-man show opening on the 20th of January 1962 and was probably done shortly after the show opened.
Oil on canvas
18” x 24”
Signed Hu ’70 (it is not clear in the photo)
It could be one of his re-datings for his Duncan Gallery show. The photos would suggest the late 1950’s, but he also mentions masks in 1962 although he does not say when he painted them.
Oil on canvas
25 1/2” x 36"
1964
Hugh refers to this painting in a letter from mid to late June ’64 (he may be talking of the Gouache version at this point).
Oil on canvas
20" x 36"
1964
The centre horse is very similar to one painted in the late 1940’s. Mentions that he has a plan for the painting in a letter from August 19, 1964.
Wallpaper
Sold to Scalamandre by Wilton Owen in November of 1964, Hugh would have designed it after 1962 when he made small paintings of the animals included in the design.
Oil on canvas
36” x 26”
1965
He mentions that he has finished the painting in a letter to Daphne dated Jan 4, 1965. He was very likely referring to the gouache version as he said he immediately set out to enlarge it.