1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Brockweir, near Tintern, Monmouthshire is a 1940 watercolor by Martin Hardie, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet village nestled in rolling hills. The buildings have red-tiled roofs and stone walls, clustered near a riverbank. Trees dot the background, and the sky is soft and pale, blending into the distant hills. The artist used light washes of color, leaving some areas almost transparent. The focus is on the simple shapes of the houses and the winding path along the river. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour depicts the village of Brockweir in Monmouthshire, situated on the banks of the River Wye, with a bridge spanning the river in the foreground and hills rising behind the settlement. Created in 1940 as part of the *Recording Britain* project, it was commissioned by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime to document aspects of British life and landscape during the Second World War. The work reflects a broader effort to preserve images of places perceived as culturally significant amid fears of wartime destruction and landscape change. It is one of over 1,500…
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Martin Hardie (1875–1952) was a painter in watercolour, printmaker, art historian and museum curator.
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