'Girls Outside the Gaiety Cinema, Newlyn.' (1925) Throughout the first two decades of the 20thC, a love of his native Cornwall dominates Harold Harvey's work. The 'impressionist' touch of his early work gives way to a crisp delineation of forms in pictures produced after 1920.

In the wake of the far-reaching loss of WW1, pictures which had an emphasis on continuity and nostalgia had enormous appeal in Britain during the inter-war years. The clarity of definition in James Walker Tucker's 'An Idle Chat,' (1936) is down to his use of egg tempera.