1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Bridge over Canal, near Litchfield is a 1943 watercolor by Barbara Jones, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a red brick bridge arching over a narrow canal. The water is calm, with a small boat tied to the bank under the bridge. Tall grasses and bushes grow along the edges, and the sky above is pale and soft. The bridge has a simple stone number marker (83) near the top. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to capture the light and mood. Next, look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour by Barbara Jones from 1943 depicts a red brick bridge spanning a canal, with a basket and two fish placed on the grass beside the towpath. The work was created as part of the "Recording Britain" project, a wartime initiative that employed artists to document Britain’s landscape and cultural heritage during the Second World War. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme aimed to preserve scenes perceived as vulnerable to wartime destruction or modern development. The collection includes over 1,500 works by 97 artists, focusing primarily on English…
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Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912 – 28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).
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