Great Malvern Station
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Great Malvern Station is a 1940 watercolor by Raymond Teague Cowern, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet train station with a tall church spire in the background. Trees line the left side, their branches bare and twisted. A few buildings sit behind a low fence, and a single car drives along the road on the right. The whole scene is painted in soft grays and whites, with loose, quick brushstrokes. The artist signed it "Great Malvern Station" and dated it 1940. The loose, sketchy style suggests it was done fast, maybe while sitting outside. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Raymond Teague Cowern titled *Great Malvern Station* was created in 1940 as part of the *Recording Britain* project, a wartime initiative to document British landscapes and architecture threatened by conflict and modernization. The work depicts the station in Worcestershire, contributing to a broader effort led by Sir Kenneth Clark to preserve a visual record of places and traditions seen as integral to national identity. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by the Ministry of Labour and National Service, the project commissioned artists to capture scenes across England,…
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Raymond Teague Cowern painted quiet watercolors of mid-century Worcestershire life during the Second World War.
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