Loading Timber at Southampton Docks is a 1917 genre painting by the British artist C.R.W. Nevinson. Fowler & Taylor p.52 It depicts dockers loading timber aboard a ship at the Port of Southampton. The artist had passed through the docks during the First World War on his way to France where he produced many paintings of the Western Front.Southampton City Art Gallery: Highlights from the Collection. Southampton City Art Gallery, 2026. p.57
Nevinson was strongly influenced by the Italian futurism and the painting uses the style of the movement including the zigzagging composition. https://southamptoncityartgallery.com/object/sotag-19624/ The painting is now in the collection of the Southampton City Art Gallery, which it acquired it in 1962. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/loading-timber-at-southampton-docks-17867
References
Bibliography Fowler, Alan & Taylor, Brandon. Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line & Interval in Modern British Art. Southampton City Art Gallery, 2005.