Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west is a 1940 watercolor by Rowland Suddaby, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting is called Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west. It was created by Rowland Suddaby in 1940. The artist spent a lot of time painting Suffolk landscapes, and this watercolour might be a tribute to Thomas Gainsborough, a famous painter from Sudbury. To learn more about the artist's style and other works, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Rowland Suddaby depicting a group of cottages at the edge of a meadow, bordered by pollarded willows, under a dusky sky. The work employs free and vigorous brushwork, with dominant hues of blue, green, and brown. Created in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain scheme, it reflects the wartime effort to document British landscapes and national identity. Suddaby, who later settled in Sudbury and became curator of Gainsborough’s House, may have intended the piece as a tribute to the town’s most famous son, Thomas Gainsborough.
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Rowland Suddaby (1912–1972) was a British artist and illustrator.
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