1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Village Green, Westmill is a 1940 watercolor by Hawkins, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet village with small houses and a church in the distance. The buildings have green doors and windows, and the roofs are made of brown tiles. In the foreground, there’s a small wooden shelter and a grassy area with a path leading through it. The artist used soft watercolors to keep everything looking gentle and calm. The colors are muted, like earthy greens and browns, giving it a peaceful feel. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
The painting *The Village Green, Westmill* by Hawkins, dated 1940, is a watercolour depicting cottages on the village green in Westmill, with the tower of St Mary’s Church visible in the background. It was created as part of the *Recording Britain* project, a wartime initiative funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime. The scheme, directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to document the British landscape amid fears of wartime destruction and ongoing social changes. The work is part of a larger collection of topographical watercolours…
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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (8 February 1807 – 27 January 1894) was an English sculptor and natural history artist renowned for his work on the life-size models of dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park in south London.
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