Geoffrey Jenkinson RCamA (1925-2005)
'August Summer Sky and River Taos Pueblo'
Signed and dated 1998, oil on canvas, 59cm by 75cm

Provenance: From the artist's family


Born in Leeds, Geoffrey Jenkinson was a pupil of Fred Cecil Jones at Pudsey Grammar School and went on to exhibit throughout the UK during the 1940's.

His main ambition was to become a professional artist in the USA, where he felt the subject matter would be unlimited, and in May 1950 he made his journey across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary.

Over the next few years he travelled extensively throughout the USA, and after a stint in the army where he was drafted to Japan and Korea, he settled in Arizona. From then on he spent his summers in New Mexico where he became well known for his paintings of Taos Pueblo and winters were spent at home in Arizona.

He exhibited widely throughout the USA over the next thirty years developing a more impressionistic style until he sold his studio in 2000 and moved to Los Angeles. Homesick for England he then returned home to his sister in Pudsey where he then died in a hospice in 2005.