The Rookery, Nantwich
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Rookery, Nantwich is a 1942 watercolor by Hooper, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a brick house with a sloped roof and two chimneys. The walls are rough, with patches of white and dark brown. Windows have white frames, and the front door is arched with a small porch. Trees with bare branches lean over the house, and the ground looks muddy. The artist signed it "Hooper" in 1942, and the title says *The Rookery, Nantwich*. The loose, quick brushstrokes make it feel like a quick sketch rather than a polished drawing. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
The work is a 1942 watercolour by Hooper depicting an 18th-century brick house known as the Rookery in Nantwich. It was produced as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative led by Sir Kenneth Clark to document places and buildings across England that embodied national identity. The scheme aimed to preserve visual records of sites threatened by bomb damage, urban expansion, and changing rural practices during the Second World War. The collection includes over 1,500 works by 97 artists, with 63 commissioned specifically for the project.
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This artist painted quiet streets and brick buildings in watercolor during the early 1940s.
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