1943
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Moreton Old (or Little) Hall, (The Front) is a 1943 watercolor by Barbara Jones, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a large, old building with many windows and a steep roof. The building has lots of details like carvings and patterns on the walls. It looks like it might be a very old house. The building is painted in watercolors, which makes it look soft and a bit faded. You can see lots of different shapes and patterns on the walls and windows, which makes the painting interesting to look at. If you like this painting, you might also want to check out the work of other artists who use watercolors to create detailed and interesting scenes, like Barbara Jones.
A watercolour signed and dated 1943, this work depicts the ornate black-and-white timber framing of Little Moreton Hall, an Elizabethan mansion. It was produced as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime scheme that employed artists to document sites of national heritage threatened by bombing or modern development. The scheme, led by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, commissioned topographical views across England to preserve a record of traditional landscapes and buildings. Over 1,500 works were created by 97 artists between 1940 and 1943.
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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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