The Foley Arms, Great Malvern
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Foley Arms, Great Malvern is a 1940 watercolor by Raymond Teague Cowern, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet street corner with a two-story building labeled *The Foley Arms Hotel*. The hotel has a balcony with wrought-iron railings, and its sign is painted in bold letters. Across the street, other buildings line a narrow road, with a few people and a horse-drawn cart in the distance. The scene looks damp, with puddles on the ground and a slightly overcast sky. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to capture light and shadow, giving the buildings a textured, almost sketchy feel. The focus is on everyday life in what looks like a small town. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Raymond Teague Cowern from 1940, this work was created as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative to document aspects of British life and landscape perceived to be at risk from war damage or modernization. The painting depicts the Foley Arms in Great Malvern, capturing a specific site within the broader effort to record English market towns and rural scenes. The project, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, employed artists to produce topographical works between 1940 and 1943, aiming to preserve a visual record of places and…
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Raymond Teague Cowern painted quiet watercolors of mid-century Worcestershire life during the Second World War.
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