1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Farm carts, Near Wisbech is a 1942 watercolor by Barbara Jones, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a red farm wagon loaded with hay bales. The wheels are big and wooden, the wagon’s sides painted with simple patterns. Two birds stand near the wagon’s front, pecking at the ground. In the background, there’s a small building with a sloped roof and a taller, older-looking stone structure behind it. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to suggest light and shadow, especially on the wagon and hay. The colors are soft and muted, with the red wagon standing out against the pale background. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour by Barbara Jones, dated 1942, depicts two brightly painted, carved, and decorated farm carts laden with hay. Part of the *Recording Britain* collection, the work was created under a wartime scheme to document aspects of British life and landscape perceived as vulnerable to change or loss. The scheme, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, employed artists to record scenes such as rural industries and traditional crafts across England, Wales, and Scotland between 1940 and 1943. Over 1,500 works were produced by 97 artists as part of the initiative.
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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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