House and Shop, Leintwardine
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1941
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
House and Shop, Leintwardine is a 1941 watercolor by Puller, a Social Realism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a two-story house with a shop on the ground floor. The walls are made of rough stone, and the roof has two chimneys. A small porch sits under one window, and a wooden door stands next to it. A fence with a gate encloses the yard, and a tiny shed is tucked in the corner. The artist used soft watercolors to capture the worn look of the buildings. The light is gentle, making the bricks and stone look warm and weathered. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this painting in person.
This watercolour and pen-and-ink work by Puller depicts an asymmetrical pale stone house in the village of Leintwardine, Herefordshire, featuring a brick buttress and a shop window. Created in 1941 as part of the *Recording Britain* project, it documents the English countryside and small settlements during the Second World War. The scheme, led by Sir Kenneth Clark and funded by the Pilgrim Trust, employed artists to record places and landscapes perceived as at risk from wartime damage or modern development. The collection includes works by notable watercolourists and focuses primarily on…
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