Admiral's House, Hampstead
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Admiral's House, Hampstead is a 1941 watercolor by Norman Thomas Janes, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet street corner with two buildings. The larger one is a tall, pale yellow house with big windows and a small porch. A woman stands inside the doorway, looking out. Next to it is a smaller brick house with a slanted roof and a tiny yard. Leafless trees and a bare tree branch frame the scene. The artist used soft, light strokes to show the details of the buildings and the empty street. It feels calm and a little cold, like a winter day. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
Admiral's House, Hampstead is a watercolour created in 1941 by Norman Thomas Janes as part of the Recording Britain project. The work was commissioned under a Ministry of Labour and National Service scheme, funded by the Pilgrim Trust, which employed artists to document British landscapes and buildings during the Second World War. The project aimed to preserve a record of sites perceived to be at risk from wartime damage or modernization. The resulting collection consists of over 1,500 works by 97 artists, including notable figures such as John Piper and Rowland Hilder.
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This British artist built quiet, intimate scenes in watercolour. In 1941 he captured the brick-and-slate calm of Admiral’s House in Hampstead, where slate roofs and overgrown gardens fold into soft northern light. It…
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