1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Bull Inn and Cottages, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick is a 1940 watercolor by Archibald Standish Hartrick, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a row of old brick houses with a tree in full bloom in front. The colors are soft—pinks, greens, and muted browns—and the brushstrokes look loose, like the artist worked fast. One house has a sign that reads *"The Bull Inn"*, and the fence in front is made of simple wooden posts. The artist focused on everyday life, not grand scenes. The tree’s branches spread across the houses, almost hiding part of the building on the right. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour by Archibald Standish Hartrick depicts The Bull Inn and Cottages in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project. The initiative, led by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, employed artists to document sites across England, Wales, and Scotland, aiming to preserve a record of the landscape amid wartime threats and social changes. Hartrick’s work is one of over 1,500 pieces produced by 97 artists during the scheme, which ran from 1940 to 1943. The collection reflects a broader effort to capture a sense of national…
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Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work.
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