Robert Hodgins – ‘Hotel with Landscape’
This large oil on canvas painting shows a skyscraper with human elements suspended above it.
Robert Hodgins was born in 1920 in Dulwich, England. In 1938 he emigrated to South Africa where he joined the Union Defence Force. He returned to England in 1944, was discharged from the service and completed a teachers training course at London University. He subsequently obtained an Arts and Crafts Certificate from London University, as well as a National Diploma of Design. He later returned to South Africa.