Well painted original watercolour by the listed artist Joseph Ridley Radcliffe McCulloch, ARWS, NS, ARCA (1893 - 1961), painted circa 1932.

Depicting the view looking down on upper Wharfedale from west of Kilnsey with the Crag above the woodland on the left, Kilnsey moor above right and in the distance to the right Simon's Seat, on the valley floor is the patchwork of fields enclosed by drystone walls.

Signed lower right. 

Watercolour on "Cox" textured wove paper. With new conservation mount and backing - ready to frame.

Watercolour in good original condition, some very light age toning to the sheet (see photo), mount new (see photos). 

Image 27.5cm x 35cm, mount 39.5cm x 47.3cm.

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Joseph Ridley Radcliffe McCulloch (1893 - 1961) A.R.W.S., N.S., A.R.C.A.

British figure and landscape painter.

McCulloch was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire in Britain in 1893. He studied art at the Leeds College of Art and then the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1912 until 1915. After 1918 he spent time at the Académie Colarossi, an art school in Paris. In the 1920s he was based in Ipswich and taught painting at the Ipswich School of Art. He was a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club from 1923 until 1928. During this decade he also exhibited at the Royal Academy. He then moved to London, living in Chelsea and Clapham in London and held a position at Clapham School of Art but by 1939 was based at Great Cheyne Studio in Chelsea. He became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society and of the Royal College of Art.

He was noted for working as a watercolourist, draftsman and etcher. His works are held in several public galleries and museums such as the Aberdeen Archives, Galleries and Museums and his portrait of Tony Smith GC is in the Imperial War Museums collections. A print of a photograph of him made in 1954 by Howard Coster is held in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 2023 his pastel drawing of an anonymous Wren officer was acquired by the Royal Museums Greenwich in London. This was the first artwork of a woman naval officer in the museum's collections (apart from Queens and wives of officers).

In 1934 he married Ethel Louisa Stone, an artist's model. In his later years he moved back to Leeds and died in Rothwell, Yorkshire on 9 November 1961.

Kilnsey is a small, picturesque village in Upper Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, located on the B6160 between Grassington (12 miles north of Skipton) and Kettlewell. It is most famous for Kilnsey Crag, a dramatic 170-foot limestone overhang popular with climbers, and the family-friendly Kilnsey Park Estate.