Harold Gilman(1876-1919): The Artist's Mother(circa 1914 ?)

A founding member of the Camden Town Group, Gilman was arguably the most gifted artist to move in the orbit of Sickert. Roger Fry’s 1910 exhibition ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ introduced Gilman to the work of Van Gogh resulting in him moving away from a tonal approach to embrace a chromatic palette and a thicker application of paint. In his short career Gilman concentrated in capturing everyday life: domestic interiors, nudes, landscapes and intense portraits (most notably his landlady Mrs Mounter). He died of influenza in 1919.
Gilman made many drawings and paintings of his mother. The present drawing shows all the hallmarks of his training at the Slade.

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