River Brett
1940
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
River Brett is a 1940 by Algernon Newton, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A charcoal and white chalk drawing on blue paper, *River Brett* depicts a winter scene of a river bend flanked by leafless trees and a grassy meadow. The work was created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project, which employed artists to document the British landscape during the Second World War. It reflects Algernon Newton’s recurring use of waterways in his compositions, a motif he later emphasized as Vice President of the Inland Waterways Association. The drawing is held in the Recording Britain collection, a wartime initiative led by Sir Kenneth Clark to preserve a record of…
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Algernon Newton drew quiet English landscapes in the 20th century. His pencil lines trace old towns like Hadleigh and the gentle River Brett, both from 1940. These calm scenes show brick bridges, old mills, and soft…
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