1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Zachary House, Zoffany House and the Moorings, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick is a 1940 watercolor by Archibald Standish Hartrick, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet riverside street with old brick houses and a big tree in the middle. A narrow path runs along the water, where a few boats are tied up. One house has a balcony, and another looks like it’s falling apart. The colors are soft—blues, browns, and greens—with quick, loose brushstrokes. The artist wrote the names of the houses at the bottom, hinting this is a real place. The messy, fast style suggests they painted it outside, not in a studio. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour depicts Zachary House, Zoffany House, and The Moorings along the Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick, created by Archibald Standish Hartrick in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project. The work was produced under a wartime scheme initiated by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime, funded by the Pilgrim Trust, to document sites of national significance in Britain during the Second World War. Hartrick’s painting reflects the project’s broader aim to preserve a visual record of the country’s architectural and rural heritage amid fears of wartime destruction…
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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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