Accession Code: wu1079 Title: Woods in Spring Date completed:c.1958 Classification: Painting Medium: Oil on board Height (mm): 300 Width (mm): 543 Depth (mm): Inscription: Location Name: Social Sciences Location Description: Faculty of Social Sciences Location Floor: 1

Gift to the University from Leighton House Museum, 2018

This evocative study of spring arriving to transform the bare branches of trees with the first bright green leaves is an early work done before Flax began to specialise in graphic art and illustration. The free, gestural style creates a lively impression of contrasts of light and shade, of movement and the rough, underlying terrain of the woodland.