The Mill at Parham
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Mill at Parham is a 1940 watercolor by Jack L. Airy, depicting Windmill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a watercolour of a windmill in Parham, Suffolk. Jack L. Airy was an amateur painter with no recorded career outside this work. His stiff, somewhat naive drawing style shows up here. He made eight watercolours for the Recording Britain scheme. Parham briefly became famous in World War II as an American Air Force base. Look up the artist Jack L. Airy next.
A watercolour by Jack L. Airy from 1940 depicts a small windmill surrounded by evenly spaced outbuildings in the Suffolk village of Parham, rendered in a stiff and somewhat naive style. The work was created as part of the Recording Britain scheme, which employed artists to document the British landscape during the Second World War. Parham gained brief wartime significance as the location of an American Air Force base. The collection, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to preserve a record of national identity through topographical views of English towns,…
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Jack Airy painted quiet corners of rural Suffolk in watercolour around 1940. In *St. Bartholomew's Church from the South-West, Orford, Suffolk* and *The Mill at Parham* he captured brickwork softened by ivy, slate roofs…
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