Cottage Gardens, Dalham, Suffolk
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cottage Gardens, Dalham, Suffolk is a 1940 watercolor by Raymond Cowern, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting is called Cottage Gardens, Dalham, Suffolk. It shows a village scene from around 1940. The gardens in the painting are true cottage gardens, used for growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs, which is different from how we think of cottage gardens today. You can learn more about this style of painting by looking at the work of Cowern, Raymond.
A watercolour by Raymond Cowern from 1940 depicts a cluster of thatched cottages in Dalham, Suffolk, surrounded by small outbuildings and lean-tos. The gardens are utilitarian, featuring neat rows of vegetables, herbs, and fruit with only incidental flowering plants. The colour scheme is limited to dark greens and browns. The work was part of the Recording Britain collection, a wartime initiative to document British landscapes and buildings threatened by change.
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Raymond Cowern painted quiet English life in watercolour during the 1940s. His brush captured High Street and the Rutland Arms in Newmarket, the neat gardens of Dalham in Suffolk, and the village of Hartest bathed in…
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