A protégé of Eric Gill and William Rothenstein, Hubert Arthur Finney (1905-1991) was part of the golden generation at the Royal College of Art that included Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman, Charles Mahoney and Evelyn Dunbar. Finney later went on to teach at the Chelsea School of Art alongside Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland, and after the war, he became head of Life Drawing at the University of Reading. In the 1960’s, Finney spent a period in America at the University of Wisconsin where his style evolved, inspired through friendships with Joe Friebert and Danny Pierce.