Pen and ink, coloured pens and watercolour on paper, 14cm x 20cm, (31cm x 36cm framed).

Albert Wainwright was born in Castleford, in the Wakefield district, and was a classmate of Henry Moore. Photographs and letters in Wakefield’s archive show that the two men were close friends as soldiers during the First World War. In 1920 Wainwright received his first one-man exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery, aged just 22. Wainwright achieved so much in his relatively short 45 years: He was an accomplished watercolour and gouache artist, a teacher, a frequent traveler to Germany before World War II, and reportedly served as a camoufleur during the war; he worked as a writer, costume designer and set designer for theatre; and he was a gay man at a time when being so was illegal and dangerous.

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