Hopgarden
1957
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1957
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Hopgarden is a 1957 watercolor by Alan Munro Reynolds, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Alan Reynolds painted *Hopgarden* in 1957 using watercolour. It’s a quiet landscape of a Kent farm where tall hop frames stand empty in neat rows. The artist started as a landscape painter and later shifted toward abstract shapes. This work still shows his early style, with strong lines that recall Paul Nash’s wartime scenes. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
Alan Munro Reynolds’s *Hopgarden* (1957) reflects his early career focus on landscape painting, particularly within the late Neo-Romantic tradition. The composition depicts a Kentish hopgarden, where the stark verticals of empty hop frames in the mid-ground evoke the fragmented forms found in Paul Nash’s wartime landscapes. This work shows Reynolds’s engagement with the structural and formal aspects of painting, a tendency that later led him toward abstraction. Influenced by Nash and Samuel Palmer, the painting also hints at the broader European avant-garde, including Paul Klee, which…
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Alan Munro Reynolds made gentle watercolours and drawings of quiet places. In *Hopgarden* he shows a patch of hops against a soft sky, all painted in 1957. His *Drawing from a plant, No.3* is a careful pencil study of…
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