Street in Stamford, Rutlandshire
1936
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1936
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Street in Stamford, Rutlandshire is a 1936 watercolor by Leathart, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet street lined with old houses. The buildings have steep, thatched roofs and dark wooden beams framing the windows. A lamppost stands empty in the middle of the road, and a tree with bare branches leans over the left side. The ground looks cobblestoned, and the whole scene feels still, like a moment frozen in time. The artist signed it "Street in Stamford, Aug '36," which matches the year 1936. The houses look like they’ve been there for centuries, with their timeless design. Next, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this artist’s work.
A watercolour titled and dated 1936, *Street in Stamford, Rutlandshire* depicts a view of a street in Stamford, featuring a double-fronted town house in the foreground. The work is part of the "Recording Britain" collection, a wartime initiative launched in 1940 by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and directed by Sir Kenneth Clark. The scheme employed artists to document the British landscape and built environment, aiming to preserve a record of places and traditions perceived as under threat from wartime damage and postwar change. Over 1,500…
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This amateur artist once painted the same quiet street in Stamford, Rutlandshire for forty years straight.
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