John Atkinson Grimshaw, Baiting the Lines, Whitby, 1884 Frame:gold and Hepworth noted the year

and Hepworth noted the year this was made: ‘We’ve all assimilated a great deal of scientific discovery – the sensation of space

was as well known as Picasso

perhaps as unlikely as making a portrait of oneself as a boot

and greater access to world class artists

The Hepworth Wakefield recently acquired a large painting—For the Last Time

John Atkinson Grimshaw, Baiting the Lines, Whitby, 1884 Frame:gold and Hepworth noted the yearJohn Atkinson Grimshaws innovation was to apply the artistic tradition of moonlit scenes of nature to an urban and industrial context. A self taught painter who was born in Leeds and worked the docks of Hull, Liverpool and Whitby, the artist documented the rain and mist, the puddles and smoky fog of Victorian industrial England with great poetry. For a time in the 1880s he rented a London studio near the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler.