Kinnerton Street, Wilton Place, S.W.1
1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Kinnerton Street, Wilton Place, S.W.1 is a 1943 watercolor by Dimond, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet street corner with two shopfronts side by side. On the left, a grocery store named *H. Southey* displays jars, bottles, and a small sign advertising "Household Stores." Next to it, a shop called *L.J. Cole* sits under a dark awning, with a doorway labeled *Anns Close* leading into a dim hallway. The pavement is cracked, and a few shoes lie abandoned outside. The artist focused on everyday details—like the faded paint and the empty street—to capture a moment frozen in time. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Dimond dated 1943, it depicts a narrow passageway between two shopfronts on Kinnerton Street, Wilton Place, leading toward Ann’s Close. The right-hand shop has its windows covered with paper and sandbags are piled on the pavement. This work was produced for the Recording Britain project, a wartime scheme that employed artists to document places and buildings across England, Wales, and Scotland during the early 1940s.
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These five watercolours zoom in on London doorways and corners in the early 1940s.
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