Old Market House, Ledbury
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Old Market House, Ledbury is a 1940 watercolor by Cowern, a Social Realism work, depicting Nuremberg, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a row of old wooden buildings with crooked, sagging roofs. The walls are made of dark beams crisscrossing over lighter plaster, some with small windows or signs. A narrow street runs between them, empty except for a few faint footprints. The far end opens up to more buildings and a hint of a bridge. The artist focused on the rough, weathered look of the wood and the uneven shapes. The buildings lean slightly, like they’ve been there for a long time. If you like this style, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A sepia watercolour by Cowern dated 1940 depicts the 17th-century Market House in Ledbury, a black and white half-timbered structure with an open ground floor supported by substantial posts. The view faces another half-timbered building housing a grocer’s shop. The work was produced for the Recording Britain collection, a wartime scheme that employed artists to document places and buildings across England, Wales, and Scotland between 1940 and 1943.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Cowern is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Dianna Cowern, American YouTuber Jenny Cowern (1943–2005), English artist Raymond Teague Cowern (1913–1986), British painter and illustrator
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