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Exhibition call to art lovers for help in finding 'lost' painting
ART lovers are being asked to help track down a large painting by a Hull artist in the run-up to the first retrospective exhibition of his life and work.
Since it went under the hammer at Tennants Auctioneers at Leyburn four years ago, the whereabouts of Walter Goodin's stunning painting Horse Country have been a mystery.
Ferns Art Gallery is now trying to find the painting as it prepares for the show, Walter Goodin: Above All the Sky, in September.
Goodin – who was born in 1907 – began his working life as a manual labourer and was later a porter for the North Eastern Train Company, which included working for Hull's "tea-time" train to Beverley.
His artistic talents were discovered by a chance encounter with a local lawyer and he was subsequently mentored by the well-known East Riding artist Frederick Elwell (1870-1958).
Goodin studied at London's Academy Schools and returned permanently to the North-East after the Second World war, spending the rest of his life in Bridlington. He died in 1992.
He is best known for his panoramic and atmospheric paintings of the sky and clouds, but in the 1960s painted Horse Country for the Black Horse pub in Market Weighton. Researchers say it could now be divided.
The assistant keeper of art (exhibitions) at Ferens, Christine Brady, said: "It is such a pity that we have not yet located this painting for the exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery, but there is still time.
"The painting is unusual and due its size is more like a frieze. We would love to include it in our exhibition for everyone to enjoy."
The exhibition will be based on research by Wendy Loncaster, an expert on Elwell, and Malcolm Shields, who has long been a patron of the arts in Hull and was a personal friend of the artist.
Over the past four years a large and remarkable range of pictures has been traced, and 120 oils, watercolours and drawings selected for the exhibition.
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