High Street and Rutland Arms, Newmarket
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
High Street and Rutland Arms, Newmarket is a 1940 watercolor by Raymond Cowern, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour shows a quiet street scene in Newmarket. Painted in 1940, it’s one of three works the artist made for Recording Britain. The empty road hints at wartime limits on daily life. The artist focused on Newmarket’s role as a market town, not its famous racecourse. The empty street might reflect the war’s quiet streets. Look up the artist Cowern, Raymond.
A watercolour by Raymond T. Cowern from 1940 depicts Newmarket High Street, showing the street lined with shops and a few visible signs, while the pavements are populated with pedestrians and cyclists. The scene captures a moment of everyday life in the town, which was known for its market as well as its racecourse. This work was one of three watercolours Cowern created for the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative to document aspects of British life and landscape during the early 1940s.
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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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