1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Mill, Walpole Highway, near Wisbech is a 1942 watercolor by Barbara Jones, a Impressionism work, depicting Windmill, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a tall windmill with a wooden base and metal blades. The blades are angled, and the tower has a small door and two windows. Nearby, there’s a small building with a chimney and a fence made of wooden slats. The artist signed the painting in the corner, noting it was made in 1942. The scene looks quiet, with muted colors and simple shapes. If you like this, check out windmill designs from the same era.
A watercolour painting by Barbara Jones from 1942 depicts a windmill in full working order at Walpole Highway near Wisbech. The work is signed, dated, and titled. It was created as part of the "Recording Britain" project, a scheme launched in 1940 by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime to document the British landscape during World War II. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, the project aimed to record places and buildings that represented national identity, with subjects primarily drawn from rural and industrial England.
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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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