1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Choir Green, The Close, Salisbury is a 1943 watercolor by Frances Macdonald, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet street lined with big, leafy trees. In the middle, a red-brick building with white columns stands out. Two small figures walk near the trees, and a bench sits empty under the shade. The ground looks wet, like it rained recently. The artist labeled buildings in the background: "The Choir School," "The Chantry," and "The Wardrobe." These names hint at a real place, not just a made-up scene. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this painting up close.
A watercolour by Frances Macdonald from 1943, titled *Choir Green, The Close, Salisbury*, was created as part of the Recording Britain project, which employed artists to document Britain’s landscape and architecture during the Second World War. The work depicts a quiet, topographical scene of Salisbury’s cathedral close, reflecting the project’s aim to preserve images of places perceived as culturally significant in the face of wartime threats and social change. Macdonald’s painting contributes to a broader effort, led by figures such as Sir Kenneth Clark, to record both historic and evolving…
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Frances Macdonald MacNair (24 August 1873 – 12 December 1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) during the 1890s.
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