Ypres Tower, Rye, from the River Rother, Sussex
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Ypres Tower, Rye, from the River Rother, Sussex is a 1940 watercolor by Adrian Hill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet riverside village with old wooden houses clustered on a hill. Boats sit beached on the muddy shore, and a tall tower rises above the rooftops. The colors are soft—muted greens, browns, and blues—with light brushstrokes that keep it loose and sketchy. The artist signed it in the corner, and the label says it’s from Sussex. The boats look ready for repair, hinting at a slow, working life by the water. Check out Adrian Hill, the artist who painted this.
A watercolor depicts the fortified Ypres Tower in Rye, Sussex, set against a backdrop of red-roofed houses clustered around it. In the foreground, a marshy landscape with scattered boats stretches toward the river. The work was created in 1940 as part of the "Recording Britain" project, a wartime initiative to document British landscapes and architecture. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme employed artists to record scenes threatened by war or modernization.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Adrian Keith Graham Hill was a British artist, writer, art therapist, educator, and broadcaster.
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