1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Bank House, Kings Staithes Quay, Kings Lynn is a 1940 watercolor by Barbara Jones, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolour painting depicts a large, three-story brick building with a brown roof. The building features several windows and a small white statue on top. A black fence surrounds the front of the building, and a dog is visible on the right side of the image. The background is a light yellow sky with some dark clouds. The painting's style is simple, with clean lines and minimal details. The focus is on the building and its surroundings, rather than on intricate details or elaborate decorations. The overall effect is one of calmness and serenity. The painting is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Barbara Jones from 1940, this work was created as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative to document places and buildings across England that embodied national identity. The painting depicts The Bank House on Kings Staithes Quay in Kings Lynn, capturing a local scene during a period marked by concerns over potential bomb damage and broader landscape changes. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark, the project enlisted artists to record threatened or vanishing aspects of British life, resulting in over 1,500 works by 97 artists. The…
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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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