The Horse Guards
1937
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1937
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Horse Guards is a 1937 watercolor by Pile, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a row of old buildings with flags hanging from windows and balconies. The colors are mostly muted—gray roofs, beige walls—but the flags add bright reds, blues, and yellows. People stand in doorways or peer out, while a fence runs along the bottom edge. The artist used quick, loose brushstrokes, almost like a sketchbook doodle. The buildings look slightly crooked, giving it a rough, unfinished feel. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
A watercolour scene set in Westminster, London, the work is dated in pencil and attributed to Pile from 1937.
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Pile painted watercolours of British buildings and landmarks in the 1930s and 40s.
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