Colts on Lexden Hill
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Colts on Lexden Hill is a 1940 watercolor by Walter Bayes, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet landscape from Lexden Hill near Colchester. Walter Bayes painted it around 1940. It’s a gentle scene, nothing dramatic. What’s odd is this small village had drawn artists for decades, yet Bayes’ piece is the only Lexden view in the big Recording Britain collection. Look up the artist Walter Bayes to see more of his work.
This watercolour by Walter Bayes depicts two colts resting in shaded grass on a hillside, with a third colt grazing in sunlight further along the slope. The scene is signed and part of the Recording Britain collection, which documented British landscapes and places during the early 1940s. Lexden, northwest of Colchester, was chosen for its scenic surroundings, though this work is the only depiction of the area in the Essex section of the collection. The scheme, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to record sites perceived as vulnerable to wartime change or…
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Walter John Bayes was an English painter and illustrator who was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group and also a renowned art teacher and critic.
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