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* John Clayworth Spencer Wells [1907-2000] Landfall 1949: signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse oil and pencil sketch on board 25.5 x 36.5cm. * Notes This drawing has a faint pencil inscription 'Annandale' on the reverse. Annandale is a strath (a broad mountain valley) in Dumfries and Galloway. * Provenance. Gifted to Michael Snow by the artist, thence by family descent * Biography. John Wells (1907-2000), artist and maker of relief constructions, was born in London, trained as a doctor at University College Hospital. He learned to paint at evening classes at St Martins School of Art. From 1936-1945 he worked as a general practitioner for the Isles of Scilly. In 1945 he moved to Newlyn to pursue a full time career as an artist. Co-founder of The Crypt Group and The Penwith Society of Artists. He worked with Barbara Hepworth and exhibited regularly in London, the provinces and abroad. His works of geometric abstraction were influenced by Naum Gabo, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. An exhibition at the Tate, St. Ives in 2007 celebrated the centenary of his birth.