Martin Gayford

How Algernon Newton made great art out of empty streets and dingy canals

Newton is not yet installed in the pantheon of notable British painters but he should be

‘The Surrey Canal, Camberwell’, 1935, by Algernon Newton. Credit: © Tate
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