Haymill, Downton Gorge
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Haymill, Downton Gorge is a 1941 watercolor by Puller, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a quiet valley with three old wooden buildings nestled among trees. The biggest house has a chimney and a slanted roof, while the smaller ones look weathered. Tall trees with bare branches stand in the foreground, and the background is filled with green foliage and rolling hills. The artist used soft watercolor strokes to show light filtering through the trees. The colors are muted, giving the scene a calm, almost misty feel. Look up Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This watercolour titled *Haymill, Downton Gorge* was created by Puller in 1941 as part of the Recording Britain project, a wartime initiative to document the British landscape and its cultural identity. The scheme, led by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, employed artists to record scenes threatened by war damage or rapid modernization, including rural landscapes and historic sites. The collection aimed to preserve a visual record of a perceived "vanishing Britain" amid changing social and industrial conditions. Over 1,500 works were produced by 97 artists between 1940 and…
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