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Hull City Museums & Art Galleries and the Hutton Press, Published 1991. Wraps, 60 pp.; 21 cm; staple bound; illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of Hick's paintings, watercolors, and drawings, plus archival photographs.
In Very Good condition. Red illustrated paper covers (front cover reproducing Hick's watercolor "Destroyer in Hull Docks," back cover with photograph of the four-masted bark Parma of Mariehamn) show mild shelf wear with a hint of color loss along the edges and spine. Binding is tight, pages clean and otherwise unmarked.Exhibition catalogue and biographical study of Allanson Hick (1898-1975), Hull architect and a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists, compiled by Arthur G. Credland, Keeper of Maritime History at the Town Docks Museum. Documents the recent acquisition of some seventy items by the Town Docks Museum (largely watercolors and "on-the-spot" sketches executed during the 1939-45 War, when Hick was the only artist permitted to record activity in the Hull Docks under wartime restrictions), together with topographical and architectural drawings from the Ferens Art Gallery collection. Subjects include destroyers Onslaught, Onslow, Offa and Milne under refit, the bark Parma, the tugs Rifleman and Pinky of the United Towing Co., the New Theatre, Monument Buildings, and Tattershall Castle. With a biographical sketch by Alan K. Bray and Allanson Hick's nephew A. G. Chamberlain.Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Biographical Sketch; Paintings and Drawings in the Permanent Collection (Town Docks Museum; Ferens Art Gallery); Pictures loaned for exhibition; Appendix 1: Pictures displayed at the Royal Academy; Appendix 2: Subjects for calendars exhibited 1976.