1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Entrance to Bromley College is a 1943 watercolor by Barbara Jones, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows the entrance to a building, possibly a college. The entrance is framed by a white stone archway with a coat of arms at the top. The building is made of red brick and has a chimney on the left side. The entrance has a black metal gate and a set of stairs leading up to it. There is a small awning above the gate, and some greenery on either side of the entrance. The sky above is light blue with some clouds. The painting is a watercolour, created in 1943 by Barbara Jones. It is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. If you want to see more of Barbara Jones' work, you could look up the artist: Jones, Barbara.
This watercolour by Barbara Jones, dated 1943, depicts the grand arched entrance of Bromley College, a late-17th century almshouse, featuring a curved pediment adorned with the founder’s arms and supported by half columns. Part of the *Recording Britain* collection, the work was created during the Second World War as part of a government initiative to document Britain’s cultural and architectural heritage. The scheme, led by Sir Kenneth Clark, aimed to preserve a record of places and traditions perceived as under threat from wartime destruction and modern development. Jones’s painting…
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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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