Church Farm (from the Churchyard) Sudbourne
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Church Farm (from the Churchyard) Sudbourne is a 1942 watercolor by Puller, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting depicts a serene scene of a churchyard, with a large house and a smaller building in the background. The churchyard is filled with tall grass and trees, and several headstones are visible in the foreground. The sky above is a soft, pale color. In the distance, the house appears to be a rustic, rural dwelling, with a sloping roof and chimneys. The smaller building to the left of the house may be a barn or a shed. The overall atmosphere of the painting is one of peace and tranquility. This painting is reminiscent of the work of artists who specialize in landscape and rural scenes, such as those found at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Puller from 1942 depicts a farmhouse and an adjacent agricultural building viewed across a churchyard, where gravestones and long grass occupy the foreground. The work was produced as part of the Recording Britain scheme, a wartime initiative led by Sir Kenneth Clark that commissioned artists to document the British landscape and aspects of national identity during the early 1940s. Funded by the Pilgrim Trust and administered by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime, the project aimed to preserve a visual record of places and traditions perceived to be at…
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