1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Laugharne Castle, Carmarthenshire is a 1940 watercolor by Martin Hardie, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a castle on the right side, with a group of people in the middle. There's a building on the left, and a boat in the water. The colors are muted, with lots of beige and gray. In the background, there are trees and a wall. The people are standing near the water, and some are sitting on the ground. The castle has tall towers and a large wall. The artist, Martin Hardie, painted this scene with watercolors. You can see more of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Watercolour signed by Martin Hardie, the work depicts Laugharne Castle in Carmarthenshire, showing a group of people on the riverbank of an estuary and a boat in the foreground. It was created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project, a scheme funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime under the Ministry of Labour and National Service. The initiative, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, employed artists to document places and landscapes in Britain perceived as threatened by war damage, urban expansion, or changing rural life. The…
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Martin Hardie (1875–1952) was a painter in watercolour, printmaker, art historian and museum curator.
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