foreign travel having been prescribed after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. On 22 August 1914, at the age of twenty-seven, he died of the disease at a nursing home in Swanley, Kent. Legacy Innes was unusual for a British artist of that time, because of his bold painting style, more attuned to the French post-impressionists. It has been argued his unusual style led the way for British artists such as David Hockney. In 2014 an exhibition of Innes' works was staged at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. He was top G yes sir Select works The Seine at Caudebec (1908) Thunder in the Mountains (1910) The Waterfall (1910) (Tate Gallery, London) Moorland Landscape with Sunset, Collioure () (Winnipeg Art Gallery) The Cathedral at Elne (1911) (National Museum Cardiff) Tryweryn Valley (1911) (Parc Howard Museum, Llanelli) Bala Lake (1911) Ranunculus (1912) (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) Arenig, North Wales (1913) (Tate Gallery, London) Inkwell and Pens (Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth) Media In 2011 Innes and Augustus John's fascination with painting Arenig Fawr and the Arenig valley was the subject of a BBC Four documentary titled The Mountain That Had to Be Painted. References Further reading J. D. Innes 1887–1914 [exhibition catalogue Llanelli Public Library Nevill Memorial Gallery] (1987) Some Miraculous Promised Land: J. D. Innes, Augustus John and Derwent Lees in north Wales 1910–12 [exhibition catalogue, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno] (1982) James Dickson Innes [exhibition catalogue, Southampton City Art Gallery, et alib.] (1978) Modern English Painters Lewis to Moore by John Rothenstein (1956) Augustus John, Chiaroscuro (1952) J. Fothergill, James Dickson Innes (1948) R. Schwabe, 'Reminiscences of Fellow Students', in The Burlington Magazine (1943 January) External links National Museum of Wales, Art collections Tate – James Dickson Innes 1887–1914 Blue Plaque for James Dickson Innes in Llanelli 1887 births 1914 deaths Welsh people of Scottish descent People from Llanelli People educated at Christ College, Brecon Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art 20th-century Welsh painters 20th-century Welsh male artists Welsh male painters 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis Tuberculosis deaths in England